The Social Times: Google Makes a Hard Push With Friend Connect (flag)
search.twitter.com — 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 embracing it at ...
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Google Makes a Hard Push With Friend Connect
The Social Times — ... The result is now a large number of blogs with Friend Connect directly integrated with their service. Surprisingly absent from all those sites? Facebook. Take a look at Twitter and you’ll see a surge in chatter about Friend Connect over the past few hours. I’ve had a few friends mention their new integration with Friend Connect. Facebook appears to still be rolling out the service on a one-at-a-time basis. ...

Too Close for Missles, Google Switches to Guns
All Facebook — ... The result is now a large number of blogs with Friend Connect directly integrated with their service. Surprisingly absent from all those sites? Facebook. Take a look at Twitter and you’ll see a surge in chatter about Friend Connect over the past few hours. I’ve had a few friends mention their new integration with Friend Connect. Facebook appears to still be rolling out the service on a one-at-a-time basis. ...

Too Close for Guns, Google Switches to Missles
All Facebook — ... The result is now a large number of blogs with Friend Connect directly integrated with their service. Surprisingly absent from all those sites? Facebook. Take a look at Twitter and you’ll see a surge in chatter about Friend Connect over the past few hours. I’ve had a few friends mention their new integration with Friend Connect. Facebook appears to still be rolling out the service on a one-at-a-time basis. ...

Google Friend Connect tries to sneak up on Facebook Connect (again)
VentureBeat — ... months. The service lets users sign in to other sites using their Facebook identities, find Facebook friends on those sites and share information from those sites with the rest of their friends back on Facebook’s home site. Google now appears to be busy trying to steal a little thunder. It offers a competing initiative, called Friend Connect. Web publishers have been receiving invites to test the service out on their own sites for the past day or so, according to a large number of developers and web publishers who are talking about it on Twitter. The ...

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www.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 ...
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