Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web

CNET News by Dan Farber | May. 11, 2008 (Opinion)

Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect" on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites."

Google will join Facebook and MySpace, which launched ways to port user data to partner sites this week. Facebook Connect will provide the hooks to let users port their friends, ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - May 11, 2008 - 7:55 AM PDT
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A short but surprisingly informative piece about the move on the part of major web players to share their social data to other sites.

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