今日，Facebook公布了一款能将用户的Facebook更新链接到日本社交网站Mixi的新应用“Facebook to Mixi wo Rinku”（即Facebook连结Mixi之意）。该应用可以将用户导向Mixi的应用程序审批页面，经过以下步骤用户就可以将Facebook资料链接到Mixi网站上:

获得Mixi用户名和个人资料照片

获得mixi朋友和团组信息

获得Mixi Voice（微博）状态/喜好/发言

获得/删除 用户的Mixi Voice状态/喜好/发言

获得Mixi朋友更新

完成后，Facebook用户的公共更新将全部被分享到Mixi网站。然而这一功能与Mixi的关联并不大，反而对Facebook网站比较有利，或许该应用是由Facebook Japan独立开发的。

facebook-notes-synced-to-mixi-voic

关于这则消息，Nikkei和Morning Japan纷纷采用了美国Facebook“联合”Mixi的说法。对此，Mixi方指出此次是Facebook愿意加入使用Mixi API，采用“联合”这种表述有点言过其实。其他日本媒体多用“Renkei”取代“Teike”，“renkei”在日语中虽有联合之意，但也可单指两件事物相连接。

或许由于Nikkei报导的强力影响，周五当天，Mixi公司的股票居高不下，最后以6.36%28，000yen的涨幅，收盘报价为468，000yen。

如果无法从该款应用中得利，Mixi很可能关闭或者干扰该款API的使用，@agektmr就指出Facebook曾关闭其与Google Friend的连接。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

Facebook has just released a new export tool to connect itself with Japanese competitor social networking service, Mixi.

The tool on Facebook, named “Facebook to Mixi wo Rinku”(Link Facebook and Mixi), will take you to Mixi API’s approval page.

Which asks the following permissions you allow to the Facebook connector to do on Mixi data,

* get nickname and profile photo on Mixi
* get Mixi friends(Maimiku) and group info
* get Mixi Voice(microblog) status/like/comments of yourself and your friends
* get/delete your Mixi Voice status/like/comments
* get Mixi friends’ update

When finished, your Facebook updates which are shared to all users, will be shared on Mixi side. Here, my test Facebook note is shown on my Mixi Voice,

What this tool do are all within regular Mixi API functionality, so it is possible that Facebook Japan just made it without asking Mixi.

Thursday evening we reported that Facebook released a new application to put your updates on Facebook into its local rival Mixi.

2 hours later, 9:15 p.m. 28th (Japan Time), Nikkei reported [J] the news with a title “US Facebook allied(Teikei, in Japanese) with Mixi, shares information on social sites”. Nikkei said that Facebook announced their alliance with Mixi.

On Friday, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Mixi’s stock rose 5-6 % and hovered for the full day, likely by the Nikkei’s report.

By seeing how the app worked with my own accounts, I thought what the Facebook app do with Mixi are limited, and it gives advantages only for Facebook side. So I concluded (tweeted in Japanese) Facebook Japan makes this on regular Mixi’s developers program which is public to anyone. (You need a Japanese cellphone to register the program but it is doable for Facebook.)

At 10:30 a.m. Morningstar Japan reported this “alliance”, but also got Mixi side’s comment, “(They) participate to use our API (a kind of development technology). The expression of alliance is too exaggerated”. Mixi is not planning any release on this.

Most other Japanese media used the word “Renkei”(linkage, interfaced, cooperation, etc.) instead of “Teikei”(ally, affiliate, partnering, cooperation, etc.). “Renkei” means alliance but it can also mean that two things are just connected.

Probably because of Nikkei’s strong influence, Mixi’s stock hovered high for all Friday, to the weekend market closing. The closing quote was 468,000 yen, 28,000 yen/6.36% up. We will see if this trend continues soon on Monday morning.

If this application’s link is not favored by Mixi, Mixi is possible to shut off or interfere the API usage. @agektmr gave me a good tip [J] that Facebook once shut down access to their open API from Google Friend Connect. （Source：Asiajin）