Google gets its friends connected
Google has introduced Friends Connect, which it hopes will encourage websites to integrate social networking tools.
The technology allows users on any site that is signed up to view, see and interact with their friends on several social networking sites.
Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut and Plaxo, are among the networks that can join, using an increasing list of social standards currently emerging on the web.
"Many sites aren’t explicitly social and don’t necessarily want to be social networks," explained Google director of engineering, David Glazer, "but they still benefit from letting their visitors interact with each other."
MySpace members can now share their profiles across the web. Chris DeWolfe, chief executive officer and co-founder, said the implementation of this portability "injects a new layer of social activity and creates a more dynamic internet".
