Someday we may find it quaint that multiple Web sites needed you to sign on separately, set up a separate profile, and act like you had no other identity on the Web. A step in that direction came Thursday when Facebook and Google continued efforts to allow their users to sign on once across a network of sites.

Other sites on the network may share components of a user’s social identity, with access to profiles, ratings, friend lists, and

more. The expanded networks could additionally include a desktop application or a mobile device.

‘A Dash of Social’

In a posting on the Official Google Blog, Product Manager Mussie Shore said Friend Connect is now available in beta to anyone “looking to add ‘a dash of social’” by just copying and pasting a few lines of cipher.

And Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is “transforming the Web into a […]

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