Easy Does It: Google Friend Connect One-Ups Facebook Connect’s Install Wizard

The battle over your online identity rages on. Google Friend Connect, the search giant's platform that lets you accept Google and OpenID accounts on your site, has just made implementing the service about as easy as it could be. And it did it exactly two days after Facebook released its own streamlined install process for Facebook Connect. Except Google's is better.

Up until now the install process for Google Friend Connect hasn't been too difficult — the site walked you through a handful of steps, asked you to upload two files via FTP to your webserver, and you were done.