A Friday blog post by Rohit Khare, co-founder of the Palo Alto-based "social" startup Ångströ, revealed that the company has been snapped by Internet search giant Google. The acquisition was also later confirmed by Google to The New York Times.

Ångströ, the latest social networking-linked acquisition by Google, essentially develops different types of applications that pull useful information from popular social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

According to Ångströ, the products that it builds include "apps to discover hot new photos on Facebook, improve Caller ID by using LinkedIn profiles, adding style and links to Twitter, create a real-time social address book."

Announcing the acquisition on the Ångströ blog, Khare said that he was looking forward to his new role at Google - a role that will chiefly relate to the currently-embryonic scuffle for open, interoperable social networks.

Going by a recent report in The Los Angeles Times, Khare apparently was convinced to join Google because the Internet giant's Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra reiterated the company's commitment to social networking.

Besides the newest acquisition of Ångströ, Google has already taken over social app firm Slide, social search biz Aardvark, and Jambool, a company that builds apps for social networks involving virtual currency and virtual goods. In addition, Google has also made a notable investment in Zynga, a company that develops games for sites like Facebook.