Friend Connect

So Much for OpenID–Google Friend Connect Gets Twitter, Facebook Connect Gets Yahoo

John Paczkowski in News on December 3, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Ever use Google Friend Connect? No? Every heard of it? No? Well, you may soon. If you use Twitter. This morning, Google said it is integrating the microblogging service with Friend Connect, a federated identity platform that allows credentials from social networks to be used on nonsocial sites.

New From Google: AdWords Connect

John Paczkowski in Social on May 12, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Google calls its latest data portability effort Friend Connect, but a better name might have been AdWord Connect. Because, like most Google initiatives, that’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it? Connecting people to ads?