Google to Launch Friend Connect for the social Web

CNET News by Dan Farber | May. 10, 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." Full Story »

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 by joel darnauer - Oct. 1, 2008

Not a very deep story, but the advent of friend connect could be very significant in the battle between open platforms like openSocial and closed approaches like Facebook and Myspace. There's definitely redundancy between the different social networks which will probably be eliminated over time.

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