It may not be Betamax versus VHS, but a war within two technology giants is heating up. On Wednesday, Facebook Connect added Yahoo’s sites to its social-networking alliance. The Yahoo announcement, which goes into effect in the first half of next year, was made shortly before Google said its rival social platform, Friend Connect, now supports Twitter credentials.

Facebook Connect and Google’s Friend Connect allow a user to sign on and next remain signed on when visiting other

sites in a network. Additionally, a user can access social connections from an allied site, as well as conduct activities specific to a site or network, such as easily posting photos from Flickr, a Yahoo site, to Facebook.

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whether a user signs onto Google’s Friend Connect with a Twitter ID, the Twitter profile, picture, name and tweeting ability are available on any of the nine million sites in the […]

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