Type of site | Social Networking Script |
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Available in | Multilingual |
Owner | |
URL | www.google.com/friendconnect |
Commercial | Free |
Registration | OpenID |
Current status | Suspended |
Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site, active from 2008 to 2012.[1] Similar to Facebook Platform and MySpaceID, it allowed users to build a profile to share and update information through messaging, photographs and video content via third-party sites which acted as a host for profile sharing and social exchanges.[2]
Google Friend Connect used open standards such as OpenID, OAuth and OpenSocial allowing usage with no registration, once authenticated they could use their existing profile and access a social graph when posting messages, the social graph feature allowed a user to post a message on a third-party site, but allowed viewing access only to other authorized "friends" contained within the user's chosen social graph.
Google Friend Connect was removed for all non-Blogger sites by March 1, 2012,[3] and for Blogger sites on January 11, 2016.[4]