Google has come up with a very ambitious project named ‘Friend Connect‘. The Google Friend Connect lets you add social network features to your website with snippets of code from different websites into your own website. Seems more like web widgets which Google have named at ‘Friend Connect’.

Google Friend Connect is in alliance with the previously launched opensocial project by Google which is build on “many sites and one api” logic thus allowing developers to develop small web widgets which can interact and use data from multiple websites. Thus the Google Friend connect will use those open social gadgets build by the opensocial community managed by a central location called Google Friend Connect central to add social network features to your websites.

Google Friend Connect provides a core set of social gadgets such as member management, message board, reviews, and picture-sharing. The key gadget is the members gadget. This gadget provides core social features for your visitors:

• sign-in with their existing Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account
• invite and show activity to existing friends from social networks such as Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more
• browse member profiles across social networks
• connect with new friends on your site

For More Info

• Google Friend Connect Page
• Sign Up for Preview Release

Tags: facebook, Google, Opensocial, Social Networking, social networking addons, Widgets