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Yahoo Login Still Preferred by Mainstream Users

There are two big names when it comes to login platforms these days, Google and Facebook, with Twitter sometimes thrown in. But hype doesn't always translate into usage, as data from comment-platform provider Echo would suggest. It found that, when given the choice, most people preferred Yahoo Login over Faceboo...

30 March 2010
03:08 GMT

Twitter Said to Be Working on Facebook Connect Alternative

The Internet identity landscape is about to get a lot more interesting if the latest rumor that Twitter is launching its version of Facebook Connect materializes. The war is being fought right now largely between Facebook and Google and the social network has a clear lead in mind-share snatching up some big-name web...

15 January 2010
06:17 GMT

Drupal and Joomla Get Google Friend Connect

A battle is brewing between Google and Facebook over online identity. Both companies offer tools which enable users to log into various sites using their existing credentials, either with Facebook Connect or through Google Friend Connect. Facebook has been winning over the big sites, but Google has more sway with tho...

12 January 2010
05:28 GMT

OpenID Connect Proposed as an Answer to the Online Identity Problem

Identity is becoming a crucial component online and there is a definite need for a convergence of all the different identities users have set up over the years on various websites and services. Increasingly, a number of identity providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, are becoming the de facto standard providers. At t...

5 January 2010
07:13 GMT

60 Million People Use Facebook Connect Every Month

Forget the search wars, forget real-time, forget Twitter, there is only one real battle for the web right now and it’s between Facebook and Google. What's more interesting is that Facebook seems to be winning. This battle, to be the web's identity provider, pits Facebook Connect against Google Friend...

10 December 2009
06:25 GMT

MySpace May Integrate Facebook Connect as Early as Next Year

It shouldn't really surprise anyone at this point, but there are now rumors that MySpace will be rolling out Facebook Connect Integration sometime in the first part of 2010. Yes, the arch-enemies of just a couple of years ago are now making “friend requests.” But 2009 is not 2007, Facebook has clearl...

5 December 2009
04:37 GMT

Google Friend Connect Adds Twitter Integration

Yahoo just announced that it's getting a lot more friendly with Facebook with a new level of integration across both sites. So, what better time for Google to announce an integration deal with Twitter than now? Google Friend Connect has a new login option now featured front and center in the sign in dialog, you...

3 December 2009
03:26 GMT

Google Profiles Can Now Be Used as OpenIDs

Google has been a big backer of OpenID, though that's not exactly a surprise when you have the login standard's creator, Brad Fitzpatrick, working for you. Fitzpatrick has announced that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenID logins. He has also added that WebFinger for Gmail now supports Google Profile...

26 November 2009
03:29 GMT

Google Steps Up the Social Game with New Friend Connect Features

Facebook may be winning the social wars for now but Google is not giving up just yet. At first glance, Google may not be exactly the first that pops into your head when you think social features but that's because it’s taking a different approach than Facebook for example, a less successful one though so f...

4 November 2009
11:40 GMT

Google Friend Connect Plugin Now Available for WordPress

Google hasn't been so successful on the social front as in other areas that can be tackled with computational power. Still, it's not giving up and it is expanding the functionality of the Google Friend Connect social widget with support for WordPress blogs. The new plugin allows users to authenticate using ...

23 October 2009
04:58 GMT

Google One-Ups Facebook with Simplified Friend Connect Install

Google and Facebook are on a collision course and, as their products start to overlap more, there will be increased competition between them. It's going to be a while before an all out war, maybe even a few years, but, already, the signs are out there. Earlier this week, Facebook released a simplified method for...

3 October 2009
04:46 GMT

Netlog Adds Support for Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect is gathering more support as it has announced that Netlog have integrated it with their social networking service. Google Friend Connect provides users with a common log-in and a way to keep “connected” with their friends across multiple sites and services and it is Google's ans...

22 May 2009
09:16 GMT

Google Friend Connect Now Features Comment Translation

Google Friend Connect, which offers website managers the possibility to add a snippet of code to the site so that social features are available immediately without the need of programming, is now reported to include a new feature, developed for the sites that use it with the comment widget, namely comment translation...

8 May 2009
05:54 GMT

Google Friend Connect Launches a New Set of APIs

Google Friend Connect allows website managers to get social features on their websites without the hard work of code writing or searching for third-party applications designed by the OpenSocial developer community. The visitors of sites that are using Google Friend Connect can easily see, invite and interact with new...

13 March 2009
09:49 GMT


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