Within 24 hours of one another Facebook and Google have released their differing "connect" offerrings, battling for predominance in the social networking world both solutions provide website operators with the ability to tie into their visitors social networks.

 

Google Friend Connect provides web developers with a number of online tools to let website operators take steps toward connecting with a wider community.ÂFacebook Connect allows logged in users on third party websites to easily connect with their Facebook friends and applications. The current add ons look interesting and with some further development they will undoubtedly become the next must have on websites.

 

The more paranoid among the internet community will alreaady be wondering what misuse the technology will be put to while many others will be working on how best to develop the ideas further.