Web giants Facebook and Google unveil new features to promote the social web. A services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites.
Google’s Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking tools to their web sites. The search giant said in a blog posting that this is as simple as “cutting and pasting a bit of code”, and requires no advanced coding or technical ability.
“The goal is to facilitate an open social web,” said Google product manager Mussie Shore in the blog post. “Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect makes it simple for people to instantly interact with one another on the sites that they already love to visit.
Facebook Connect, meanwhile, which was announced this Summer, has also been updated, according to a blog posting on its web site. However, as might be expected with a social networking site, Facebook is asking its users to create momentum.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook will add sites to the service where there is user demand, and asked subscribers to get in contact with the firms in question to request a connection.
Source: vnunet.com
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Google is getting each day, and sometimes I loose track of the new offerings. Isn’t orkut a social network from google ?
Comment by accent (1 comments) — December 6, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
This is indeed good news for Google and Face Book users. Now we don’t need to have multiple log-in IDs and it will be faster and easier for us to interact across these two sites.
Comment by weight loss supplements blogger (1 comments) — December 6, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
that is good to hear, as it will make it more efficient for users and eople won’t loose their password as much
Comment by Work At Home Jobs (1 comments) — December 8, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
Very useful information…thaks for sharing;)
Comment by blue_eyes (2 comments) — December 9, 2008 @ 8:46 am
That is the best decision they both took, cause facebook is one of the biggest website now that people are crazy for signing in once everyday. Google took a very good decision.
Comment by automatic watch winders (1 comments) — December 11, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
I just love facebook and this is my 2nd year runing im having a facebook account and 6 years i am having a google account. Both the sites are excellent in my point of views.. CONGRATS to both of them for taking such a good decision
Comment by Sumaiya (1 comments) — December 11, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
It is indeed a great news of people like us. It is better to have single userid and password, then to have number of them. I congratulate them, this will allow user to use them more often.
Comment by Marble Host (2 comments) — December 13, 2008 @ 9:11 am
Such a great decision has both taken my wishes to the google and social media users.
Comment by Telepresence (1 comments) — December 15, 2008 @ 6:44 am
nice thats Such a great decision and happy new year
Comment by Web Design company Delhi gurgaon (1 comments) — December 31, 2008 @ 4:15 am
I prefer facebook really like it, but the one and only bad thing is that my girlfriend always watch my movements lol.
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