History
Google Friend Connect was first previewed at a Google developer event in May 2008 and launched within days of Facebook Platform.
At the launch Google called Friend Connect a "set of functions and applications enabling website owners to easily make their sites social by adding registration, invitations, member's gallery, message posting and reviews, plus applications built by the open social developer community".
In December 2008 Google Friend Connect became available to any webmaster wanting to adopt social applications.
Independent musician Ingrid Michaelson's official website was one of the first websites used as a prototype by Google to illustrate features from Google Friend Connect. A site by Google on Guacamole was another early sample site.
David Glazer, the Director of Engineering at Google, called Google Friend Connect "plumbing for the rest of the Web".
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