Facebook And Google Launch Single Sign-On Services

Facebook And Google Launch Single Sign-On Services

Facebook and Google have both launched new user-ID services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites.


Google's Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking tools to their web sites. The search giant said in a blog posting that this is as simple as "cutting and pasting a bit of code", and requires no advanced coding or technical ability.



Friend Connect is also designed to be account-agnostic, letting users log in with an existing account from Google, Yahoo, AOL or OpenID, and other online sites including Plaxo and Google's Orkut.