Google: Good With Widgets, Not With Feeds

When Google launched their Friend Connect service publicly last week, they one-upped Facebook by providing publishers with an easy to install widget on their site for instantly creating a community. While the features weren’t robust, it made it so that anybody could instantly implement the service on their site. In contrast, Facebook rolled out their service with the a few partners, many of which have still yet to go live.

Why the announcements were made at the same time, most likely due to the two companies’ fierce public relations battle, the battle for developers is still undetermined.