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Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday

(Posted on  TechCrunch  29 days ago)

Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile i… (visit source article)

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