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"Google Friend Connect, the company\u2019s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to signup without waiting to be whitelisted.  Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability, the basic premise is that you can login with your Google (or Yahoo, AIM, OpenID) credentials on third-party applications without signing up for a separate account.You can see this in action right here on the sidebar of Mashable, where you can join our community using your Google credentials.  You can also invite other people to join from within the application, either by emailing them (you\u2019ll see a list of your Google contacts) or sharing the links on MySpace or Facebook.  Another example implementation is Qloud, the music discovery service, where you can now sign-in using your Google account, and then be able to save playlists and see which of your friends  are already users.  Additionally, part of what Google wants to do is allow for simple implementations where webmasters can simply copy and paste code for various Google Gadgets \u2013 like comments or reviews \u2013 to enable social features.\nMore details about Friend Connect are available in the demo below:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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