Google has just announced a new development, that Google Friend Connect integrates Twitter, the famous micro-blogging social network. Now you can sign into friend connect sites with your Twitter ID. Friend Connect also supports IDs from Google, Yahoo, AIM, and OpenID.

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Few days ago, using OpenSocial, Shopit build ecommerce store application on the Ning platform and now Shopit to launch Shopit Store App on hi5, one of the world’s largest social networks. Empowered by hi5’s newly announced Developer Platform, users can build stores within profiles with the click of a button and sell to friends, people in their social community, and even people in other networks.

Hi5 users can now leverage the power of a growing global commerce network that spans across multiple communities, currently reaching over 350 million people. The Shopit platform easily enables fully functional and synchronized commerce within Social Communities.

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With the launch of OpenSocial support, members of the over 500,000 social networks on Ning will now be able to add Shopit ecommerce store application directly to their profiles with a single click from the OpenSocial application directory available on every social network on Ning.

Shopit platform easily enables fully functional and synchronized commerce within Social Communities. Users can build stores within profiles with the click of a button and sell to friends, people in their social community, and even people in other networks. Shopit plans to allow controlled commerce functionality, so that Ning social network users can buy and sell across multiple networks in Ning and OpenSocial or simply within their own communities.

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Ning has followed in the footsteps of other social networking services like MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, and started to integrate with Google Code initiative OpenSocial, the platform that “defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites.”

Ning, for those unfamiliar is not so much a social network, but a platform from which others to create their own social networks. Kyle Ford at the Ning Blog highlights the following features of the company’s integration with OpenSocial:

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Friendster has deployed the OpenSocial standard application programming interfaces (APIs) as part of the Friendster Developer Program. Companies and individual developers can now use the OpenSocial standard to introduce their applications, or features, to Friendster’s 75 million users around the world.

OpenSocial support is a significant enhancement and extension to the successful Friendster Developer Program, launched in late 2007. Friendster was only the second major social network to launch a robust developer platform, and since then, the Friendster Developer Program has been successful with both users and developers alike.

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