Google’s Joe Kraus: Friend Connect helps like-minded strangers meet across the web

Google’s Joe Kraus: Friend Connect helps like-minded strangers meet across the web

Up to this point, Google’s Friend Connect service seemed to lack two essential ingredients. Sure, it offers an easy way for web publishers to let users provide their identities on other sites. But Friend Connect has neither a popular social network to provide user relationships on other sites, nor a home social network to drive user interactions across sites, as I covered last night.

Contrast that with Facebook’s rival service, Connect, which offers ways to find… Continue Reading