The last few days generated more excitement for the social networking world. MySpace and Facebook recently announced their respective tools to become more open and connected to other social networking sites. Others such as Friendster, Orkut and Bebo are expected to follow this development.
And now comes Google Friend Connect - a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors.
In their preview release this May 12, "Google Friend Connect has been developed to lower two barriers to the spread of social features across the web. First, many website owners want to add features that enable their visitors to do things with their friends, but the technology and resource hurdles have been too high. Second, people are tiring of needing to create new logins and profiles and recreate their friends lists wherever they go on the web. Google Friend Connect offers a solution to both these issues."
Here's a diagram of what Friend Connect wants to achieve:
So instead of doing so much legwork from the many available sites, this will greatly benefit the millions of social users and also those developers and companies doing business in this space. This will also lessen the need to re-create your profiles should you become interested in other social networking sites.
More on this in the coming posts...
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