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Thursday, 3rd December 2009

Google Friend Connect and Twitter Get Together

A busy day for the social web. First, Yahoo and Facebook announced that in the first-half of 2010, "You will be able to see your Facebook friends’ activities on Yahoo! and share Yahoo! content – ratings, photos, article comments, and more – directly on your Facebook stream." Yahoo will do this by using Facebook Connect.

Now, it's Google's turn.

From a Blog Post:

Now you can join one of over nine million Google Friend Connect sites using your Twitter login. Once signed in, your Twitter profile will be automatically linked and you can tweet your new site membership, share discussions from the comments gadget, and invite your friends via Twitter.

Already using Google Friend Connect on your site? These features are live and users can start signing in and posting via Twitter today.

Included in the blog post is a 75 second video demo.

Analysis from VentureBeat

What’s interesting is the timing. It comes on the same day Facebook announced a massive integration with Yahoo’s properties, handing the social network an additional way to reach 500 million people. A big win. Yahoo users can use their Facebook log-ins to see what their friends are doing on its properties and share that activity back to their social network.

Google, however, doesn’t really have a large sharing platform. It has Orkut and Google Reader, but those haven’t found the same traction Twitter or Facebook has with audiences closing in on half a billion users. It also wants to prevent the growth of closed or unfriendly ecosystems. So it’s turning to Twitter in a reactive move against its emerging competitor Facebook.

Source: Google Social Web Log


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