Google Friend Connect Unleashed

June 12th, 2008 by Nick Gonzalez

Israeli blogger Orli Yankul got the honor of being one of the first sites to install Google Friend Connect (post). Google Friend Connect is Google’s answer to Facebook Connect, which both let websites integrate social networking features that leverage social network’s pool of users. ReadWriteWeb has some more details about it.

This is an important event for developers and advertisers because it points to the future of social platforms outside of networks like MySpace and Facebook. In the future applications will be integrated on any website that wants them. It all adds up to more distribution.

Orli has implemented the membership widget, which lets users sign up for her site. Users can sign up using Google, Yahoo, AIM, and OpenID. When signing up, you don’t have to provide your real ID, but can instead create a site specific alias. Once signed up, you’ll be able to interact with other apps on the site and share site content with other friends on your social network.

Applications in the wild, like this, will change the types of apps developers will create. Utility apps will experience a boost as web masters seek to manage their communities, as well as media applications.

I suggest you try it out.

Tags: developers, Google

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