The early fruits of Google’s OpenSocial Movement – FriendConnect
Sep 25
http://www.google.com/friendconnect/
This is a pretty cool opportunity for website owners who don’t have the budget or the technical expertise to build social features into their site. It’s a free gadget/widget based way to implement social features such as rating systems, user community, comments, photo sharing, etc onto a site. It helps a site grow virally by allowing you to invite friends from other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. As with other open source projects, independent developers are contributing new social gadgets all the time, so the library is growing.
It’s still in beta invite only mode, but I’d expect to see heavy use of these gadgets in the near future.
