Get Power of Social Networking Using Google Friend Connect

Google has released a preview of Google Friend Connect, a service which will allow you to add social networking features from Orkut, Facebook, iLike, hi5 and many more.

All this by simply adding a piece of code from http://www.google.com/friendconnect and Friend connect will do the rest.

Social networking can’t get simpler then this, and trust Google to do the simple things.

User will be able to sign in using their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID accounts. A site owner can choose the features that are available for it’s users to use.

This is how it works

Everyone wins in a friend connected web:

• You, the site owner – Google Friend Connect gives you a snippet of code that, when put into your site, will equip the site with social features, including the ability to run third-party social applications. Moreover, it enables your visitors to log in with existing credentials, see who among their friends is already registered at that site. It also gives them one-click access to invite friends from their existing friends lists on other sites, such as Facebook or orkut.
• Your site’s visitors – Visitors no longer need to create a new account or develop yet another friends list just to use the social applications on your site. We create the infrastructure that allows one login to be used across multiple sites and the ability to reuse existing friend relationships that the visitor has already established elsewhere.
• OpenSocial developers – With Google Friend Connect, any website on the web can become an OpenSocial container. Their social applications can now run on social networking sites and anywhere else on the web that uses Google Friend Connect. By placing these applications on sites where users already visit, these application will be seen and used by more users more often.
• Social networks – With Google Friend Connect, social networks thrive as hubs of activity while giving their users more opportunities to bring their friend relationships to other websites while simultaneously bringing their friends and activities from outside the social network back in — with people having the ability to publish their activities across the web into the activity streams of their social networks.

Now the bad news, it is available to limited number of website owners for now, even then I am excited about the possibilities Google Friend Connect brings with itself.

Check out more details about Google’s friend Connect Service