Social Networking News - by David Cohn on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:41 - 1 Comment

Start Beat Blogging in Minutes with Google Friend Connect

The excuses for not beat blogging are becoming harder and harder to swallow. Don’t have the technical tools? Not enough time to alter your website?

Tonight Google released Friend connect.

When I first learned about OpenSocial I talked about it with the 13 beat bloggers quickly and said: "you probably won’t need to worry about OpenSocial, right now it’s just for developers and we won’t see a practical application for about one year."

I will now take off my hat and tip it towards Google and then proceed to eat it. They managed to get a practical application of OpenSocial in seven months. Bad news for Facebook, good news for beat blogging.

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Mary Specht
May 14, 2008 13:01

Curious if you have any info on when they’ll release publicly? Sounds like limited release is indefinite at this point.

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