MySpace.com and Internet search leader Google Inc. are teaming up to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival Facebook Inc.
Unveiled late Monday in Paris, the alliance is based upon MySpace’s seven-month-old effort to make it easier for the 127 million worldwide users of its online hangout to connect with their social circles while using other internet destinations.
MySpace will make its login system “MySpaceID” compatible with any Web site that wants to embrace it.
Working on the similar kind of service offered by Google, MySpace is sure that more websites will welcome the latest development. Blogs and other small sites with limited technical help probably will find it easier to use Google’s system, known as “Friend Connect,” said Max Engel, who oversees MySpaceID.
The teaming up of MySpace and Google represents their latest shot across Facebook’s bow. While, facebook is also coming up with its own universal login service to give more options to its roughly 130 million worldwide users to share their personal profiles and favorite applications wherever and whenever they want on the Web.
Facebook has also tampered with Google by hiring some of its top employess, including Facebook’s current chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, who oversaw global online sales.
