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Today Google has launched “Friend Connect,” described as a tool to make any website “social.” The entire concept removes the “garden walls,” which lock a user’s account into one particular website. Imagine having only one account for the internet. You log into Facebook with the same username as you would with iLike, a social music website. Instantly you can share music with your friends on facebook because the two sites are connected through Google’s Friend Connect. Your friends are not just on Facebook — they’re on the internet.

Account portability sounds amazing. Now anyone, with the right technological background, can start a website and incorporate anyone using Friend Connect — instantly a huge social network. However, this causes a huge security threat.

Instead of your Facebook account being compromised because your password is “123″ your “internet” is compromised. Every website that uses Google’s Friend Connect has now been compromised and you’ve just become a pink-sparkling-fairy on Facebook who likes Celine Dion, not that I have anything against her but seriously, Celine Dion?. I couldn’t think of anything worse.

Web 3.0 has been defined by many bloggers, both professional and grammatically incorrect like myself. However, I believe that Web 3.0 is indeed account portability. While some may argue that OpenID, a service that allows for one username/password across the web, may be web 3.0. OpenID is Web 2.5. It’s a step in the right direction, but you only keep your username and password across the web. Web 3.0 is different because it allows you to keep all your data across the web.

If Web 2.0 is Ajax and the uprising of social networks then Web 3.0 makes the internet a social web.

What do you think about the next step in the internet’s evolution?

Further Reading:
How Google Friend Connect Works