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 Blogger and Google Friend Connect unite
Blogger and Google Friend Connect unite
By building on Friend Connect technology, the Following feature can now tap into an open ecosystem. Visitors will be able to follow a blog using their Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account, just as they can on any other site with Friend Connect. These blogs will be listed in their ...
Ads in Google News search results
googlenewsblog.blogspot.com — Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:58 AM Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager If you're in the... US, starting today you may notice something a bit different when you search Google News. Last November, we announced plans to begin experimenting ... (more) Ads in Google News search results
New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
googleenterprise.blogspot.com — We made a commitment last year to increase transparency and communication with Google Apps customers in several... ways. We heard your feedback around the need for better communication when issues like yesterday's Gmail outage occur. As part of that ... (more) New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
googlesystem.blogspot.com — Google Shared Stuff , the social bookmarking service that has never been officially launched, will no longer... be available after the end of March. As usually, Google's suggestions for replacing the discontinued services are hilarious: " If you want ... (more) Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
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Google Friend Connect Hooks Up With Blogger
TechCrunch — ... to start following (i.e. subscribing to) blogs using their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account and turns Blogger more into a social network than a straightforward blog publishing service. Blogs that you indicate to be following will be listed in your Blogger profile and the integration will also leverage existing relationships, meaning you’ll be able to quickly see if your friends are also following those blogs. The integration was announced on Google’s new Social Web Blog, and the post promises more goodies in the future: And this ...

Google Friend Connect Opens Up To Blogger
WebProNews Feed — ... The Google Social Web Blog provides more information." By building on Friend Connect technology, the Following feature can now tap into an open ecosystem. Visitors will be able to follow a blog using their Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account, just as they can on any other site with Friend Connect." ...

Blogger Gets More Social With Friend Connect Integration
Wired: Epicenter — Google expanded the social networking features of Blogger on Thursday by integrating its Friend Connect technology into the service. Now, anyone with a Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account can log into Blogger and "follow" any Blogger blog. Choosing to follow a Blogger blog effectively adds the author to a user's social network, as they receive activity updates for that blog, and they can see what blogs that author, his friends and their own friends are also following. Friend Connect is Google's open-source system for building ...

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googleblog.blogspot.com 2/27/2009 — When we introduced the Following feature for Blogger last fall, we wanted to help you connect with fans of your own blog and discover communities of people who share your interests. It has been exciting to see Following grow over the past few months, ...
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labnol.org 11/13/2008 — Google Friend Connect is a much-awaited service from Google that lets you add social features to any website or blog. For instance, your blog readers can join your site (remember MyBlogLog ) via their Google Account and then add comments, rate ...
Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend Connect Feature
techcrunch.com 2/12/2009 — Google is now making it easier for Websites to surface Friend Connect features with what it is calling the Social Bar. This is a toolbar that Websites can add to the top of their homepage or any other page they wish, and then they can add links ...
Despite Outage, Google Makes More Tweaks To GmailInformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2/26/2009
Even though Gmail crashed for several hours earlier this week , Google is moving forward with its continual roll out of new features for its email product. This week, Gmail adds the ability to change the tab label for Gmail, as well as add multiple ...
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