Facebook is suing Power.com, a service that lets users aggregate their social networking experience across multiple sites. The suit, filed Dec. 30 in federal court in California, was first reported on
by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington.
Facebook alleges that Power.com violates its terms of use, copyright and trademarks. They object to the storage of user credentials on the Power.com
servers, the scraping of "proprietary data" from Facebook (user data).
In some ways this is similar to the actions Facebook took to block Google Friend Connect from accessing Facebook accounts
last May, Arrington noted. "When third parties access Facebook, they want it done the way they want it done -- via the API and Facebook Connect," Arrington wrote. For now Power.com has removed
Facebook access from the site.--Tanya Irwin