Plaxo, which is now under the Comcast umbrella, now supports Google’s Friend Connect. With Plaxo’s integration, you’re able to see which of your Plaxo contacts are also on sites that support Friend Connect, and invite Plaxo friends to join the site as well. There’s Plaxo Pulse integration too, so any activity that occurs on Friend [...]

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Last week Facebook said that they would no longer support Google Friend Connect. Apparently there were a number of disputes between Google and Facebook behind the scenes but publicly Facebook claims that they won’t support Google Friend Connect due to privacy concerns. The reality is that it’s business strategy. Ultimately the new Google Friend Connect [...]

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When Data Portability was first announced, it sounded like it would solve what had become one of the biggest problems in the social networking space: a seemingly endless array of new services, each of which required you to setup and maintain your own profile, friend’s list, photo albums, etc. With the support of just about [...]

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There has been a ton of discussion surrounding data portability in light of Facebook’s decision to bow out of Google Friend Connect and go it alone with their own service. Mike Arrington accurately argues that data portability is the new walled garden. The current race for social networks is to open up their platforms so [...]

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Yesterday afternoon Facebook announced that they would be leaving Facebook Friend Connect due to privacy issues. Ultimately the post sounded as though Facebook was concerned about users putting their personal data at risk. Well, Google has sent us a statement in light of Facebook’s decision:
We’re disappointed that Facebook disabled their users’ ability to use Friend [...]

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Following announcements last week from Facebook and MySpace about initiatives to make your social networking data portable, Google has announced “Friend Connect,” a similar service that will officially launch this evening at Google’s Campfire One event.

Friend Connect is a tool which enables any website owner to add some code to their site and get a [...]

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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 [...]

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