Facebook to Google: my Connect is bigger than yours
VentureBeat — ... . So is Google’s service, Friend Connect. Both sites have been giving access privately over the last few weeks and months, after both companies — and a third rival, MySapce — announced their competing initiatives this spring. ...

Google and Facebook Both Launch Friend Connect [Online Identity]
Lifehacker — [image] Expect to see a whole lot more Google and Facebook sign-in boxes on sites all over the web from today going forward: in what you'd think was a planned parallel announcement, Google and Facebook launched their Friend Connect and ...

Google, Facebook Fight To Connect Friends
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , a set of APIs for building online social applications. It was made available as a preview release in May to sites that Google approved. It is now available to any Web site that chooses to implement it. "Friend Connect's goal is to facilitate an open social Web," said Google product manager Mussie Shore in a blog post . "Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect makes it simple for people to instantly interact with one another on the sites that they already love to visit. Additionally, websites that use Friend Connect become OpenSocial containers, capable ...

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, Facebook Connect Face Off
Google Watch — ... Friend Connect is based on the trendy open-source OpenID standard and lets Web sites accept a member's OpenSocial user name and password to log into their sites, share info through a personal profile and so on. Because it leverages OpenID, Friend Connect lets you log in using an existing account from Google, Yahoo or AOL, which all support the single sign-on standard. ...

Google Launches Friend Connect After Months of Waiting
WebProNews Feed — ... to socialize within your site using accounts they have already established from other parties (including Google itself). Google Friend Connect Friend Connect was first launched back in May as a preview release, but Google has been working a lot on it since then, and has expanded features "with richer, more integrated profiles and new ways to discuss and share content, like including YouTube videos in your comments." "Friend Connect's goal is to facilitate an open social web," says Product Manager Mussie Shore. "Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect ...

Facebook Connect opens for business, Google offers beta rival
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Curiously enough, Google made an announcement this morning to say that its rival "Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a 'dash of social' to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required." (Did they see any Facebook Connect banners going up yesterday, or was it just a happy coincidence?) ...

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 ...

So you have Google Friend Connect... Now What?
GO2WEB20 Blog — ... If you'll go now to the Google Friend Connect site, you'll be able to easily set your site and grab a piece of code to place in your site or blog. You can choose from several gadgets that Google already has, when the most attractive one is the "Members Gadget". By adding this one to your blog, you are allowing readers to join the site, see other people pictures, and basically to explore other members profiles. Friend Connect Members can add links to their profile with their favorite social networks, sites etc. This profile will go with them on each site they'll join, and anyone ...

Google Friend Connect Available
D' Technology Weblog — ...  in beta is now open for everyone, looking to add a “social gadgets” to their site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by uploading two files to their root folder ”canvas.html” and “rpc_relay.html”, and then copying and pasting a few snippets of code, you can pick embed code for different gadgets. ...

Google’s Friend Connect Open to All
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Anyway, if you’ve been itching to add Google Friend Connect to your own web site, you’re in for a good Friday. Google has just announced that–in no way connected to any threat that Facebook Connect may bring–Google Friend Connect is now open to all. ...

Data Portability Google and Facebook Style: Which One Will Webmasters Choose?
Profy — ... So while it is said that Google Friend Connect is way much easier to implement for a webmaster, I think the chances of reaching the large Facebook community are way more attractive than simply saving some time installing the code. And do you know any website owner who can resist getting some visibility (probably a lot) for free, at the same time actually doing something good and valuable for their users? Honestly, Google is a giant and it often has perfect chances of winning in any competitive struggle but this does not seem to be the case. ...

Google and Facebook Open Up "Connect" Programs
AppScout — ... networking platforms to the public, the similarly named Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. Both services are aimed at letting users extend their online identity beyond the confines of a single social network. Both initiatives were announced earlier in the year, but until now have been open only to developers. Google was the first to open its Connect service, with Facebook following suit less than an hour later. More information on the Connect programs can be found at Google and Facebook's respective blogs.

Google Friend Connect? Confusing! Facebook Connect? Not Bad!
Technologizer — facebookgoogleconnect Google and Facebook have both rolled out new platforms designed to spread their tendrils across more of the Web than ever. The names– Google Friend Connect and ...

As ye socialize, so shall ye reap
GMSV — Even as Facebook and Google introduce new ways to incorporate a larger portion of the Web into your online social presence, there is fresh evidence that such socializing is not without some peril. * You could become an object of suspicion at work. Intel recently surveyed 200 corporate and government IT professionals and found that 13 percent regarded employees under 30 as “a major security concern,” while 37 percent tagged them as “somewhat of a security concern,” largely because they’re more likely to frequent social networking sites. Among the IT ...

Phase II of Google and Facebook's OpenID arms race
Betanews — ... , Facebook, Google, and MySpace all debuted their open identification platforms which allow the sites to work with other services based upon a single login and user identity. However, there was immediate tension between Google and Facebook, which resulted in Facebook blocking Google's Friend Connect. Yesterday morning, Google announced that beta testing of Friend Connect is complete, and that webmasters that wish to add social features can now link to Google, Yahoo, AOL, and OpenID services through Friend Connect. Mussie Shore, Friend Connect Product Manager said, "We have ...

Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — A few days ago, the top news story on Techmeme was the fact that Google launched Google Friend Connect and Facebook announced the final version of Facebook Connect within minutes of each other. Reading up on both announcements it seems interesting to note how most of the coverage is about who will win the race to dominate the Web as opposed to what end user value is actually being created by these technologies. It was somewhat depressing until I read Dave Winer's brilliant post ...

MySpace Launches ID Effort, Open Platform [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... web services on the MySpace social network. It allows people to publish activities from partner sites such as Eventful, Flixster, and new partners Vodafone and Netvibes—all of which are developing MySpaceID implementations. All this talk about IDs and Connects is lots of fancy talk. Dave Winer put it well when he wrote, “We’re seeing feature wars. That’s what’s going on between Facebook and Google, both perfectly timing the rollouts of their developer proposition to coincide with the ...

Google Brings Twitter to Friend Connect
ReadWriteWeb — ... Google Friend Connect is a way for web site owners to bring social features like comments or media sharing to any site on the Internet. Today, Google ...

Twitter Joins Friend Connect
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... that users of Google Friend Connect are now able to connect their Twitter accounts to their Google accounts. This means that when you join a ‘Friend Connected’ site, you’ll be able to connect with your other Twitter friends on that site. ...

Marissa Mayer on The Future Of Google, and Herself?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... This comes shortly after Google releases their Friend Connect. With this service webmasters can add social elements to their site by including a social widget that tracks visitors based on user’s Google ID. Users can also select others as their “friends.” What does this mean for search? If Google can successfully track a user’s friends online, they can get a better understanding of what types of information the user is interested in, thus more data for search personalization. ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Outside the Lines — ... The awards are based on a popularity contest via votes cast through the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors. The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition included Facebook Connect (the runner-up), Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, Swype and Yahoo BOSS. Given that ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Webware.com — ... The awards are based on a popularity contest via votes cast through the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors. The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition included Facebook Connect (the runner-up), Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, Swype and Yahoo BOSS. Given that ...

iGoogle to be first big Google flop of 2009?
Josh Chandler — ... Furthermore the thing that shocks me is how Google Friend Connect is going to be used “post friend updates”, which has been noted as a way to perhaps send messages to your friends on Google Friend Connect, however effective this will be at preventing Facebook Connect getting a strong user base it still shows lack of innovation and thought on Google’s behalf.  We can clearly see as well that if proven to be true all profile data already collected by Google for Google Friend Connect will be feed into the “social iGoogle”. ...

Experimental Firefox Add-on Weaves OpenID Into the Browser
Webmonkey — ... Offering a single sign-in solution for the web is currently a hot topic. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace and countless other sites are all offering to host your identity for you. Many of these key players on the social web are also offering tools to allow third-party sites to let you log in using the identity you have hosted with whoever your provider is — Google through FriendConnect, Facebook through ...