I started my Monday reading TechCrunch as usual. Seems Google will be launching its own social data portability effort called Friend Connect this month. Is an “open id” social network coming? Using Friend Connect, any website owner can, according to the press release,
“add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming.”
There is nothing really earth shattering here, just that the Friend Connect tools are designed such that there’s no need to do any actual coding, just plug in your site’s info and copy and paste the code into your web page. Viola.
It would be nice is if eventually Google, or somebody, makes it possible for websites to combine the Friend Connect data with their own user stats. Oh, and how does this factor into the MyWorld speculation?
So there you have it. Google pops the blog cherry.
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