Google Launches Friend Connect After Months of Waiting

It has been quite the day for connecting. Not only did Facebook Google Friend Connect available (in beta) as well.

Friend Connect is basically a way to make your own site more social via a service from Google. By using the service, you are allowing people to socialize within your site using accounts they have already established from other parties (including Google itself).


Friend Connect was first launched back in May as a preview release, but Google has been working a lot on it since then, and has expanded features "with richer, more integrated profiles and new ways to discuss and share content, like including YouTube videos in your comments."

"Friend Connect's goal is to facilitate an open social web,"
The best part about it is probably that it requires no developer knowledge. They give you a little bit of code to embed and that's pretty much all there is to it.