# Google Friend Connect Now Serverside

**Published by:** [Continuations](https://continuations.com/)
**Published on:** 2009-03-13
**Categories:** google, facebook, friend connect, api, ident, identity
**URL:** https://continuations.com/google-friend-connect-now-serverside

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Maybe yesterday was a big news day or maybe this has been known for a while and I simply wasn’t aware, but I thought that Google’s announcement yesterday of the Google Friend Connect API was a big deal (and yet seemed to pass virtually unnoticed – was off Techmeme within hours). When Friend Connect was first announced, I was pretty negative about how they had chosen to implement it. I did hedge at the time by saying “at least in its current incarnation” – and now Google has shown that they are taking this in the direction that it needs to go. As I wrote yesterday, I believe that this is by and large good news for owners of smaller sites and services. Still, I am hoping to see an independent service arise that does the same by combining smaller sites into a network. Now that one can compare the Google and Facebook Connect APIs (something I am planning to do this weekend), the structure of such an API should be fairly clear.

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