Google Announces Friend Connect

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (Hypebot) — The walled garden around social networks continues to crumbles. Just days after MySpace and Facebook opened their profiles and platforms, Google has launched Friends Connect which easily adds social networking functions to any web site at no cost. Your connections then travel with you to any web site using the platform.

I'd love to see a band use these tools on their site to give fans new ways to connect. Bands could even trade or share friends.