Enter
Google Friend Connect. This new service, announced as a preview release tonight at
Campfire One, lets non-technical site owners sprinkle social features throughout their websites, so visitors will easily be able to join with their AOL, Google, OpenID, and Yahoo! credentials. You'll be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web like
Facebook,
Google Talk,
hi5,
LinkedIn,
orkut,
Plaxo, and others. And quite simply, you'll be able to do things together.