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greek39
05-14-2008, 07:17 AM
Google takes on facebook and myspace except better.


Google has set out to enable all websites, free of charge, to be imbued with common social networking features as the Internet evolves toward becoming a giant community along the lines of MySpace or Facebook.

Google wants to be at the heart of the Internet trend of people building online identities that play, share, and conduct business in virtual environments, according to Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle.

source:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGfXoOtIb0ne_5Dx8Kq4zQ4H95ow

“Google Friend Connect is like giving Webmasters a salt shaker full of ’social’ that they can sprinkle on their sites to add social capabilities,” David Glazer, a director of engineering at Google told a conference call of reporters Monday.

source:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/google-wants-to-help-web-sites-make-new-friends/?em&ex=1210824000&en=04e0802de4946ab9&ei=5087%0A
greek39

joeyl
05-14-2008, 10:11 AM
Sounds like a decent idea to me. Will have to check it out further and see how, and if it works.