Let me sum up Google Friend Connect later known in this article as GFC, into easy terms “You can easily insert social networking features into any app, any site, and any friend to your website/blog.“Detail of which could be found here http://www.google.com/friendconnect/.

GFC gives site owners a way to draw and engage more people by giving visitors a way to connect with friends on their websites. Coding experience is not required at all for GFC to work, only small snippets of codes are copy-pasted into any site and that’s it. Think of it as a Google’s Passport – Universal Login application with collaboration and networking features. This is one platform which will bring all the functionality of all the social networking sites under one umbrella.

GFC is developed for following reasons according to Google:

Attract more visitors:

Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, orkut, and others to interact on your site.

Enrich your site with social features:

Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets provided by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.

No programming whatsoever:

Just copy and paste snippets of code into your site, and Google Friend Connect does the rest.

How can you and me benefit from it:

1. We can turn any website into a social networking site.
2. We can bring traffic to our website
3. We can share application from different websites with others
4. We remain in control of our data and applications while socializing at the same time
5. We take all our application with us wherever we go on internet

Google has a wait list for requests to use GFC. It is expected to allow few dozen sites in the next few days. Unleashing Friend Connect will be staged over the coming months, according to Joe Kraus, Google director of product management. “It’s on the order of months, and certainly not six months, probably a couple,” he said.