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Send your social-network profile to other sites
Google announced this week that it’s going to allow users to transport their personal profile information and favorite applications to other sites.
It’s called Friend Connect and is similar to announcements made earlier by Facebook and MySpace. Google says it will help people interact with friends on other social-networking sites.
Techcrunch.com’s Mike Arrington sees another reason for Google’s interest. The site that holds the information in the first place will likely control the data going forward and be the site the user identifies with.
C/NET blogger Dan Farber suggests that it’s also a great move for Google. Its own social-networking site, Orkut, is much smaller than Facebook and MySpace. But with its software tool for sharing information, Google can build a better connection to those sites.
Let’s see how this shakes out two or three months from now.
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