mashable.com - 12/4/2008
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Google Friend Connect , the company’s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to signup without waiting to be whitelisted. Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability, the basic premise is that you can login with your Google (or Yahoo, AIM, ...
Google Makes a Hard Push With Friend Connect
socialtimes.com 12/4/2008 — Tonight I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Friend Connect, Google’s open initiative to take of Facebook Connect. The service lets you login using your Google, Orkut, or Plaxo account. Both MySpace and Facebook decided to opt-out of ...
Breaking: Google Friend Connect Goes Live for All
socialtimes.com 12/4/2008 — We just received word from Google that Friend Connect has gone live and that all websites can now implement the service by visiting google.com/friendconnect . Check out the video below for more information. The timing of this announcement could not ...
Google Friend Connect Now Open To All Websites
techcrunch.com 12/4/2008 —
The battle over who will control access to your online identity is heating up. In the wake of more and more partners finally starting to take a shine to Facebook’s competing FB Connect (which we’ve just implemented ourselves on ...
Google Friend Connect launches, eyes Facebook Connect
arstechnica.com 12/4/2008 — It's a social day for web giants during a social season. Not content to let Facebook Connect hog the spotlight, Google has announced the public availability of Friend Connect, its similar, standards-based platform for single sign-on convenience and ...
Facebook Connect Has Arrived
techcrunch.com 12/1/2008 — Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May.
The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace ( Data ...
Facebook Connect Now Generally Available As Well
techcrunch.com 12/4/2008 —
Not an hour after Google announced the general availability of Friend Connect, Facebook is doing the same for its competing Facebook Connect service. Now any third party website that wants to pull personal data about visitors from Facebook - and ...
Google Friend Connect tries to sneak up on Facebook Connect (again)
venturebeat.com 12/4/2008 — Social network Facebook has been slowly rolling out its new service, Connect , over the last few months. The service lets users sign in to other sites using their Facebook identities, find Facebook friends on those sites and share information from ...
Google Stealthily Building a Social Network? —
The Inquisitr » Technology
Google Friend Connect is the latest in a trend of big media companies who are ‘opening up their users data’ to help make the web more social. Facebook recently scored big by securing a deal that would allow Digg, Hulu and Discovery users to sign up and authenticate using their existing ...
Get Your ID War On -- Google Friend Connect Goes Live, Too —
Wired: Epicenter
Never one to be outdone, Google released its Friend Connect technology as a public beta Thursday. The timing is curious, as it came within hours of Facebook's announcement that it had released its own Facebook Connect technology, which accomplishes a similar task -- data portability between ...
Google Launches Friend Connect After Months of Waiting —
WebProNews Feed
It has been quite the day for connecting. Not only did Facebook unleash Facebook Connect on the world, but Google has also now made Google Friend Connect available (in beta) as well. Friend Connect is basically a way to make your own site more social via a service from Google. By using the ...
Testing Google Friend Connect —
Google Blogoscoped
Google Friend Connect is now open for everyone, allowing you to add certain social gadgets to your site. The set-up requires you to upload two files to your root (called "canvas.html" and "rpc_relay.html"), and then you can pick embed code for different gadgets. I've embedded gadgets below, and ...
Google Friend Connect - now available for everyone —
The Next Web
Want to add social features to your site letting users share information and interact with friends while visiting some of their favorite websites?
Google Friend Connect lets you do that now. This service was in a limited beta since May but now it’s open to all webmasters (open beta). ...
Google's turn: Friend Connect is live, too —
Webware.com
Google today, likely in reaction to the official rollout of Facebook Connect , has opened up its universal login system, Google Friend Connect . Journalists today received a hurried e-mail saying, "Starting today, any website owner is welcome to add Friend Connect to his or her website -- ...
Google Friend Connect Is Live —
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog
As expected , the Google Friend Connect service is now live. You can get started by visiting google.com/friendconnect and clicking the "Set up a new site" button.
If your blog is hosted on Blogger.com, you are ready to go but other websites will have to upload two files on the web ...
Too Close for Missles, Google Switches to Guns —
All Facebook
Tonight I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Friend Connect, Google’s open initiative to take of Facebook Connect. The service lets you login using your Google, Orkut, or Plaxo account. Both MySpace and Facebook decided to opt-out of integrating into the service but bloggers are ...
Too Close for Guns, Google Switches to Missles —
All Facebook
Tonight I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Friend Connect, Google’s open initiative to take of Facebook Connect. The service lets you login using your Google, Orkut, or Plaxo account. Both MySpace and Facebook decided to opt-out of integrating into the service but bloggers are ...
Sociable! Provides Instant Connect Integration for Your Blog —
All Facebook
So you’ve been hearing all the buzz about Facebook Connect but you can’t figure out how to get it integrated with your site. Thanks to Sociable! Now you can. Sociable! is a Wordpress plugin which lets you integrate a Facebook Connect community, similar to the Google Friend Connect ...
Facebook Connect vs Google Friend Connect: Fight! —
Mashable!
Amidst all the talk about data portability and net identity, all that end users want to know is: how can I use this, and is it any good? Now both Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are open to everyone; we’ve looked into these two services to see what they offer and which one is ...
No Friend Connect for Blogger? —
SEO and Tech Daily
About 2 days before the 'entire world' got access to Google's new Friend Connect, I received an e-mail saying 'You've been whitelisted to try Google Friend Connect'.
While it makes for a great promotion to give someone the idea that they have an 'inside track', this practice (used by ...
Google’s Friend Connect Open to All —
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
I know that I should be excited about the endless possibilities that Google Friend Connect will bring, but I can’t help wonder how this service is any different from Yahoo’s MyBlogLog .
Anyway, if you’ve been itching to add Google Friend Connect to your own web site, ...
Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect Face Off —
Google Watch
On Dec. 1, I blogged like everyone else about the launch of Facebook Connect, which finally became official today, Dec. 4, after The New York Times got to chomp on the first bone last weekend.
Connect is the opening of the walled garden for Facebook's 120 million users, letting users sign in ...
Nerd fight: Google vs. Facebook —
mathewingram.com/work
It’s like a war, except with programmers and social networks instead of soldiers and anti-aircraft artillery. First Google opened up its distributed social net, Google Friend Connect — which I have installed in my sidebar and also embedded below — and then Facebook threw open ...
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