The race is on for winning users’ first choice for inputting their social data, and letting it publish out to other properties they choose. This is gonna be a big one. All announced since 5/8 — Myspace Data Availability, then Facebook Connect, then Google Friend Connect.Good overview in video: http://webbalert.com/2008/05/may-12th.htmlGoogle’s news that came after the webbalert episode referenced above:http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/05/google-announce-friend-connect/Google has made its official announcement about Friend Connect, the service launching at tonight’s Google Campfire event. According to the press release, Google Friend Connect enables “any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.” Update 5/13I like the breakdown give by http://alisaleonard.blogspot.com/2008/05/googs-friend-connect-web-is-social.html“The Google offering, Friend Connect, takes a different turn bringing the social Web to the long tail. With MySpace and Facebook, data portability is flowing out from them; with Google’s Friend Connect data portability becomes even more significant by allowing websites, any site, to act as a social hub. As a user I can opt-in to a Friend Connect-enabled site and if I so choose port my content and even friend network over to that site. I can also (and most virtuously for said site) have all of my interactions with that site fed back to my social net feeds (thus encouraging more traffic, and theoretically, more qualified traffic).As a site owner, I don’t need to do a massive redesign, or even know code. With a snippet of embeddable code I can create a social experience on my existing site by 1) allowing users to login via OpenID, 2)bring their data to populate their presence, and 3)create a dynamic experience by integrating OpenSocial apps to my site.”

The race is on for winning users’ first choice for inputting their social data, and letting it publish out to other properties they choose. This is gonna be a big one.

All announced since 5/8 — Myspace Data Availability, then Facebook Connect, then Google Friend Connect.

Good overview in video: http://webbalert.com/2008/05/may-12th.html

Google’s news that came after the webbalert episode referenced above:
http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/05/google-announce-friend-connect/

Google has made its official announcement about Friend Connect, the service launching at tonight’s Google Campfire event. According to the press release, Google Friend Connect enables “any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.”

Update 5/13

I like the breakdown give by http://alisaleonard.blogspot.com/2008/05/googs-friend-connect-web-is-social.html

“The Google offering, Friend Connect, takes a different turn bringing the social Web to the long tail. With MySpace and Facebook, data portability is flowing out from them; with Google’s Friend Connect data portability becomes even more significant by allowing websites, any site, to act as a social hub. As a user I can opt-in to a Friend Connect-enabled site and if I so choose port my content and even friend network over to that site. I can also (and most virtuously for said site) have all of my interactions with that site fed back to my social net feeds (thus encouraging more traffic, and theoretically, more qualified traffic).

As a site owner, I don’t need to do a massive redesign, or even know code. With a snippet of embeddable code I can create a social experience on my existing site by 1) allowing users to login via OpenID, 2)bring their data to populate their presence, and 3)create a dynamic experience by integrating OpenSocial apps to my site.”

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