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Google Friend Connect that lets you join any website and interact with the people there in a meaningful way, regardless of where they come from.Today Google Friend Connect add Netlog which is Europe’s popular social networks. Netlog, which has more than 45 million users worldwide, just implemented Google’s alternative to Facebook Connect, which allows users to sign in using any ID supported by Google Friend Connect. It support Google, Yahoo, AIM, and OpenID and allow to share their activities with their existing contacts.

Google’s integration with Netlog lets users sign into sites and blogs using Friend Connect with their Netlog ID and password. Users can use their Netlog profiles on the site, invite other Netlog users to join Friend Connect, and also share their Friend Connect activity with friends on Netlog. On the back end, Google used open standards like OpenID, OAuth, and OpenSocial as underlying technologies to enabling any other service to plug into Friend Connect like Netlog & because of this Open standards it's far good then Facebook Connect.

Any social network or service, whether they are large or small, regional or global, niche or general audience, is welcome to take advantage of these open standards to integrate with Friend Connect, and participate in an open social web.

Additionally, for sites that are already using Friend Connect, one of the benefits of this standards based model is that they can take advantage of any new service that chooses to join this open ecosystem, like Netlog, without any additional work. The new network option simply appears.

Netlog is growing fast, especially in Eastern Europe and the Middle-East, where it serves as the community portal of choice thanks to its viral nature and extensive language translation program. But even though Netlog is becoming increasingly popular in other parts of the world, this isn’t as big of a win for Google as the integration of a popular social network worldwide like Facebook, which officially has 200 million registered users around the globe. Facebook just hit 307 million unique visitors worldwide in April, with MySpace trailing behind with 127 million unique visitors in April, according to comScore. By comparison, comScore’s worldwide unique visitor estimate for Netlog is 23.8 million.

WeboLobby also having Google Friend Connect at the basic base. we are trying to improve it and Soon we enable all the interactive features of Friend Connect for batter user experience. Mean while do join our community and invite your friends to Join the site.