Will Facebook Connect beat Google Friend Connect?

Finally the day has come; Facebook Connect is now live for all who wish to integrate into their sites. Facebook Connect is the social network’s hottest tool for expanding their social services. Facebook Connect service was originally announced last May just one day after MySpace announced its very own Data Portability Initiative and a few days before Google announced Google Friend Connect. Facebook is betting hard on Facebook Connect to become the primary identity standard on the web. Facebook Connect is a huge step in social networking world. Connect will allows users to port their profile data to third party websites, with Facebook Connect third party sites that wants to know and pull personal data of visitors coming from Facebook could be done easily. They can even send back information to their Facebook news feeds. But some of the Facebook Connect partner sites have yet to implement the Connect service. Well the only bug that I see for Facebook Connect is the integration issue, its requires programming knowledge but Facebook are now working on this problem, a plug-in for Facebook Connect is about to release very soon , all we have to do is wait. The said plug-in would ease Facebook Connect integration. Facebook Connect main competitor Google Friend Connect is also on the move, Google launched its own Friend Connect the same day Facebook launched its own Facebook Connect. But for me, Google got edge here; it’s got a wider online reach and global presence. Google has provided a better ways for all sites to easily embed Friend Connect to their site; integration could be done after registering Friend Connect service. Look like Facebook got a strong competition here, mighty Google is always on move. The race is on. Who will be the dominant online identity standard? Both Facebook and Google have announced on the same day. Both companies are struggling to establish themselves as the primary online identity standard for users and developers. Both got strong partnerships and mainstream buzz. I have to ay that the battle between Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect is about to get fierce and brutal. But the crowd would like the two.