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O'Reilly Radar  says…

Google Friend Connect Previews Tonight

Later today Google is going to preview Friend Connect (it's not live yet at http://www.google.com/friendconnect), a product that lets any website host OpenSocial applications. These applications will enable a site's user to interact with th…

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim  says…

Google Friend Connect Makes Sites More Social

First MySpace announced data portability, then Facebook announced Connect, and now Google has Friend Connect. Each is making it easier to share profile information from one social networking site to other web sites (and hoping to be place you…

John Battelle's Searchblog  says…

MySpace, Facebook, Google: Connect, Compete, Control?

Great news developing over the weekend around data portability, though it remains to be seen how the implementations go. Facebook Connect: Today we are announcing Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform t…

Marc's Voice  says…

The Religion of Bringing Social to Software

We’re starting to see a pattern here. Profiles, social graphs and user’s content is starting to get encapsulated and plopped into external web sites, blogs and other social networks. The user’s data stays locked up in the originating site, b…

FaceReviews: Facebook Applications Reviews and Facebook News  says…

Google Friend Connect Makes Any Site Social

Google will officially announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect in about an hour. I will be on the conference call to learn as much as possible as to how Google Friend Connect will work. Here is what we know for sure at this point:…

freshcoats, the wetpaint blog  says…

All sites will be social sites

The last couple of weeks have seen pronouncements about making the entire Web - not just social networking sites - more social, where everyone can connect and interact easily. There have been some impressive announcements to enable frictionle…

Online Marketing Blog  says…

Google Friend Connect, solo un social connettore? Oppure…

Google si avvicina con autorevolezza al mondo dei Social Network, fornendo la possibilità a qualsiasi sito WEB di entrare a far parte di un immensa rete.

Content Matters  says…

Google Friend Connect

Google tonight will launch Google Friend Connect, the first major product introduction around the Open Social platform. Friend Connect will allow websites to integrate social networking capabilities without the need to write code. The announc…

CyberNet  says…

Google’s Friend Connect Simplifies Being Social on the Web

At the center of Google’s efforts to help sites become more social is Google Friend Connect. It’s brand new from Google and will help just about any site become social. A preview release will be available tonight at www.google.com/friendconne…

Daily Marauder  says…

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA The big social networking players have turned their attention toward a long-standing problem on the net usually referred to as data portability. MySpace was the first to announce a new set of tools that …

Zef Hemel.com  says…

Links for 2008-05-15

Today’s interesting links: Google Doctype [Daring Fireball] Moshi’s Zefyr MacBook cooler is way hot [Engadget] Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media [ReadWriteWeb] tinydb.org [tinydb.org] Google Confirms Friend Connect [TechCrunch]…

TechMacro  says…

Google Confirms Friend Connect

[TechCrunch] — As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:

TechSheep  says…

Google Confirms Friend Connect (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Google Confirms Friend Connect  —  As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect.  It will be announcing more details about the preview later tonight, …

netzwertig.com  says…

Google Friend Connect: Die wichtigsten Punkte

Wie bereits im Vorfeld bekannt (gemacht) geworden, hat Google am gestrigen Montag Friend Connect lanciert. Allerdings nur als stark eingeschrätes “Preview Release”. Erwartetermaßn beherrscht Google Friend Connect und dessen erste offiziell be…

unblogged. A blog about nothing. Yeah, nothing  says…

Google lanza Friend Connect

Google lanza el servicio Friend Connect | TechCrunch Tags: Friend Connect, Google, minipost, TechCrunch

The Friday Traffic Report  says…

Google Friend Connect Buzz

There are lots of people weighing in on Google Friend Connect. Early reviews are mixed, to be sure, but Google is always able to create a firestorm of attention when it announces new services. Since I haven’t gotten invited yet, I will with…

SetThings  says…

Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now. So, from now on any o…

This Is The Future  says…

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This Is The Future  says…

Apple lines up iPhone Asia deals

Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog  says…

SEO Weekend Update

The Social Networks Get More Social Something must have been in the water this past weekend because Google and the social networks have decided to be just a little bit sweeter to their users. Both Facebook and MySpace revealed portability opt…

Beta Alfa  says…

Google vill göra alla sajter sociala

Google vill göra webben än mer social. Med sitt nya Friend Connect vill de koppla samman hemsidor och människor utan något tekniskt krångel. “Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. Wit…

Customer Collective  says…

Google Connect Makes Sites More Social

First MySpace announced data portability, then Facebook announced Connect, and now Google has Friend Connect. Each is making it easier to share profile information from one social networking site to o...

Tourismuszukunft - das Tourismusblog  says…

Tripwolf und die Kompatibilität zu anderen Communities

Neulich habe ich schon kurz üripwolf geschrieben und ganz kurz vorgestellt. Wahrscheinlich häe ich mich intensiver damit beschäigen sollen, denn gerade lese ich auf dem Blog von Claude einige interessante Infos üie Community. Neben den “üen” …

Olaf Egner - Online Marketing, Web Services & Consulting  says…

Live From Google Campfire One: Friend Connect

Google is holding its third Campfire One event tonight, this time to discuss the details of Friend Connect with developers. Friend Connect is a new data portability initiative for spreading social connections around the web. It’s the third o…

Olaf Egner - Online Marketing, Web Services & Consulting  says…

He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook

More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. I spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineering David Glazer about the banning to get a fuller pictu…

Twitturly - Current Top 100 (All Languages)  says…

18 Tweets | Google Confirms Friend Connect

As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details ... - 18 comments

Olaf Egner - Online Marketing, Web Services & Consulting  says…

OpenID To Look For New Leadership

OpenID Foundation is looking for new leadership to guide the project going forward. Executive Director Bill Washburn, who is the only paid employee of the foundation, will be leaving in six months and the entity is looking for a replacement. …

Olaf Egner - Online Marketing, Web Services & Consulting  says…

Gigya Socialize Goes Up Against Google Friend Connect

Distributing friend connections across the web has been quite a hot topic in the Web 2.0 community as of late. MySpace, Facebook, and Google have all come out with their own initiatives for sharing social graph data with any number of websit…

Daily Marauder  says…

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA Walt Mossberg just finished interviewing Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker (my real time notes are here, see Peter Kafka’s notes as well).The two key topics of the interview were the failed …

202km.com  says…

Live From Google Campfire One: Friend Connect

Google is holding its third Campfire One event tonight, this time to discuss the details of Friend Connect with developers. Friend Connect is a new data portability initiative for spreading social connections around the web. It’s the third o…

Portfolio.com: Tech Observer  says…

The Social Networking Orgy: What the ---- ?!

OK, we've got, like, a stinkin' bacchanal of social networking strategery going on today, and I don't know about you, but most of the time I don't have ANY idea what these companies are talking about or how I'll use what they're offering. Go…

202km.com  says…

OpenID To Look For New Leadership

OpenID Foundation is looking for new leadership to guide the project going forward. Executive Director Bill Washburn, who is the only paid employee of the foundation, will be leaving in six months and the entity is looking for a replacement. …

Googlisti.com  says…

Vuoi rendere il tuo sito social? Arriva Google Friend Connect

ATTENZIONE: Questo articolo ètato scritto 2 mesi fa. Alcuni links e argomenti trattati potrebbero non essere piùidi.La voce che aveva cominciato a circolare ieri è stata confermata con una nota ufficiale nella quale Google presenta il progett…

202km.com  says…

MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability

MySpace was the first of the Big Three to announce tools for third party sites to integrate MySpace user data into their services (called, collectively, Data Availability). A day later Facebook announced Facebook Connect, then came Google Fri…

Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne  says…

Where 2.0 First Day - Does Google’s Friend Connect have a Spatial Component?

We are all set up here in cosmopolitan Burlingame for the fun of Where 2.0. Thus far we’ve sat in on Advanced GIS Hacks in Rails and are currently enjoying the GeoServer tutorial. There is a bit of a lull in the action, so I thought I would…

Highest Rated Posts on Searchles  says…

Google Confirms Friend Connect

Google announced Friend Connect that aims to allow sites to easily add community features without being a complete social networking site.

InsaneIdea  says…

The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect

Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s Friend C…

InsaneIdea  says…

He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook

More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. I spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineering David Glazer about the banning to get a fuller pictu…

InsaneIdea  says…

Live From Google Campfire One: Friend Connect

Google is holding its third Campfire One event tonight, this time to discuss the details of Friend Connect with developers. Friend Connect is a new data portability initiative for spreading social connections around the web. It’s the third o…