Google Friend Connect comes to The Inquisitr
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Just over a year since launching, Google’s first play into quasi onsite social networking Google Friend Connect remains in private beta, however some sites are now receiving invitations to sign up. ...

Breaking: Google Friend Connect Goes Live for All
SocialTimes.com — We just received word from Google that Friend Connect has gone live and that all websites can now implement the service by visiting google.com/friendconnect. Check out the video below for more information. The timing of this announcement could not be better. I can’t elaborate currently but within the next hour and a half there will be big news related to this announcement. Yesterday I highlighted that Google was now making a hard push with Friend Connect. Today, the company has decided to release it for all to integrate. This service makes it so that you can instantly connect with all ...

Why Facebook Connect wins
Webware.com — Facebook is officially announcing today that the company's login system, Facebook Connect, is officially open for business for non-Facebook sites. Facebook is making the implementation of Facebook Connect self-service, so anyone that has a site with even a smidgen of community features can hook into the Facebook social universe. Previously: Facebook Connect appears set for expansion. As I wrote previously, it's hard to say no to this program. Not just because adding the capability to a site to let users "register" with their existing Facebook credentials will boost community ...

Google Friend Connect: Try It Now on Mashable
Mashable! — ... Google Friend Connect, the company’s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to signup without waiting to be whitelisted. Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability, the basic premise is that you can login with your Google (or Yahoo, AIM, OpenID) credentials on third-party applications without signing up for a separate account. ...

Google's turn: Friend Connect is live, too
Webware.com — Google today, likely in reaction to the official rollout of Facebook Connect, has opened up its universal login system, Google Friend Connect. Journalists today received a hurried e-mail saying, "Starting today, any website owner is welcome to add Friend Connect to his or her website -- no ...

Nerd fight: Google vs. Facebook
mathewingram.com/work — It’s like a war, except with programmers and social networks instead of soldiers and anti-aircraft artillery. First Google opened up its distributed social net, Google Friend Connect — which I have installed in my sidebar and also embedded below — and then Facebook threw open the doors on its version, imaginatively called (what else) Facebook Connect. The aim of both ventures is the same: to allow you to use your login credentials from the network on various sites around the Web, bringing your social profile with you wherever you go. In the process, both companies no doubt hope ...

Google’s Friend Connect Released
SolSie.com — Google releases the new  “Friend Connect” to blog or website owners to add tools such review forms, comments, or photo-sharing widgets that use data from other Social communities like Google, Flickr. Yahoo, AIM,  Users can use their current credentials from these Web site to join, discuss and interact with other members…    To learn more, please visit www.google.com/friendconnect. ...

Update: Friend Connect DOES support Blogger
SEO and Tech Daily — Blogger Marianne chimed in on the last post (in the comments) with a thread from the Google Blogger users group, that the 2 required HTML files are apparently native to Blogger. There simply was no announcement from Blogger yet. Details for adding Friend Connect to Blogger are here.  Use the Javascript widget. There is no need to modify your template. I have put an example at the very lower right on this blog. Of course, you are more than welcome to 'put your face' there :) Again, our ...

Google Friend Connect spawns new Directories
SEO and Tech Daily — It didn't take long for a few smart people to launch 'specialized directories' of blogs and websites implementing Google's Friend Connect. ...

iLike social playlist gadget for Google Friend Connect
D' Technology Weblog — ... If you run Friend Connect on your website, you can add the gadget by sign in at www.google.com/friendconnect, click “Social Gadgets,” and you’ll find the iLike “Playlist gadget” in the gallery. Select the “Playlist gadget,” and Friend Connect will automatically generate a snippet of code for you to copy-and-paste into your website’s HTML. You can also add the “Wall gadget”—music can be a great conversation starter! ...

iLike Via Google Friend Connect
WebProNews Feed — ... , the popular maker of social applications, which supplies music to Facebook, now has a social playlist gadget for use with Google Friend Connect . Once implemented, this gadget allows site users to contribute to forming a soundtrack for the site that it is on. For example, if you have a blog and have Google Friend Connect with this gadget set up, people can login and add songs to the playlist. The site administrator still retains ultimate control of the playlists and can add and delete songs at will. Any visitors to that blog will be able to listen to songs from the ...

Google Invites You To Its Social Bar
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Web site owners are being invited to own less of their Web sites. Google on Wednesday launched a new Google Friend Connect feature that allows Web site owners to add a collection of social widgets to their pages via an embedded navigation bar. Facebook users will immediately recognize the mechanics: They see a similar Facebook-branded navigation bar appear atop a new page when they click on an external link posted by another Facebook user. It serves to keep Facebook users inside Facebook, at least mentally, while viewing content on external Web ...

Google Invites You To Its Social Bar
TechWeb — Web site owners are being invited to own less of their Web sites. Google on Wednesday launched a new Google Friend Connect feature that allows Web site owners to add a collection of social widgets to their pages via an embedded navigation bar. Facebook users immediately will recognize the mechanics: They see a similar Facebook-branded navigation bar appear atop a new page when they click on an external link posted by another Facebook user. It serves to keep Facebook users inside Facebook, at least mentally, while viewing content on external Web ...

Add a Google Friend Connect Social Bar to your Site
(Obsolete Feed) — ... You can easily add the Google Friend Connect Social Bar to your site by visiting this link or watching the video below. It’s really easy. I was able to implement it on my personal blog in less than a minute. ...

Google Introduces Social Bar
WebProNews Feed — [image] Making Your Site Social Just Got Easier The Google Friend Connect Team has introduced a new feature to the service - a social bar. You can set the bar to appear at the top or bottom of you page. The toolbar contains the following elements: - On the far left, visitors can join your site, see their identity, and edit their profiles and settings. - your site's activity stream, including links to recent posts made anywhere on your site - The wall gadget, which can host a discussion for the whole site, a section of pages, or each individual page, letting your visitors easily read and leave comments. - a ...

Google Friend Connect will be your Source for Applications
GO2WEB20 Blog — Yesterday Techcrunch wrote about a new release from Google Friend Connect team - The Social Bar. If you use Google Friend Connect at your site/blog, this can actually replace the Wall & Member gadgets, and save you some space ;-) I've chosen to leave the Member gadget because I think it's pretty neat to see readers by their faces, and the wall gadget is very nicely done. However, the comment wall is gone, and now you can comment (if you like) from the social bar itself, and also browse for other members comments. Friend Connect ...

Google Friend Connect API available in Code Labs
D' Technology Weblog — ... . To take advantage of the the API on your site, go to www.google.com/friendconnect and visit the “for developers” section to grab the snippet that enables the new API on your site. ...

Google Friend Connect Adds Event Widget
AppScout — Google has added an event gadget to Google Friend Connect that lets Website owners publicize events they might be hosting, promoting, or attending. "Do you run a Website about local biking trails? Use the event gadget to organize a group ride by posting a public event on your site," Yoah Bar-David, a software engineer for Google Calendar, wrote in a blog post. "Members of your site can sign in and RSVP, and their responses will appear directly on the Website." To add the widget, go to google.com/friendconnect. Click on Social Gadgets and then ...

Google Translates Comments with Google Friend Connect
WebProNews Feed — ... foster deeper interactions between site members," says Google Friend Connect Product Manager Mussie Shore. Google notes that users who already have the gadget on their sites will not have to do anything to get the new version. The feature will be added automatically. If you do not have it on your site, and you wish to get it, it is available at google.com/friendconnect. More information about this and other Google Friend Connect features is available at the features gallery. ...

Google Launches Recommendation Gadget for Friend Connect
WebProNews Feed — Google has introduced some recommendations gadgets for Google Friend Connect. Site owners with Google Friend Connect enabled can now recommend content they like to other users. "Members can recommend the content they like, anything from a whole page to a single photo, by simply clicking a button," explains Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager, Google Friend Connect. "Then you and anyone who visits your site can see what parts of your site are the most popular. The items with the most votes will surface to the top of the list, making it easier for others to find ...

Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out
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Google Friend Connect Gets Support for 47 Languages
AppScout — ... , Friend Connect has allowed used to integrate Google social features on outside Web sites, but only in English. Now users can add Google Chat, Events, or any other gadget, and have that information show up in their own language. ...

Google Friend Connect simplifies setup process
D' Technology Weblog — ... , you no longer’ve to download or upload files. To get started with Friend Connect features, all you have to do is submit your website's name and URL after logging into www.google.com/friendconnect. Additionally, the "canvas mode" that's used inside gadgets is updated. So now, when you click the zoom icon in the upper right corner of some gadgets, you'll see a lightbox that displays the gadgets' contents, instead of being taken to a new webpage. ...

Google Friend Connect Becomes Friend Connect With Benefits
TechCrunch — ... the social layer that sits on top of every site on the Internet. So far, at least in mindshare, Facebook has been winning this battle with Facebook Connect. Google’s offering, Friend Connect, is the sibling that gets no respect. But that could change starting today with some new features and functionality. ...

Google Friend Connect: More Ways to Connect Friends
Technologizer — ... Google has rolled out a major update to Google Friend Connect, its service that lets small Web sites (and some not-so-small ones, such as the Huffington Post) easily add community features such as comments, reviews and ratings, and the ability to friend other visitors. ...

Google Friend Connect offers personalization and AdSense ads
D' Technology Weblog — Google Friend Connect let website owners get to know their users, encourage users to get to know other and personalize their site content, including Google ads. Google’ve integrated AdSense with Friend Connect, giving publishers option to show ads that match visitors' interests. When you login your Friend Connect account, new "Interests" section let you create a list of questions, either as part of your website's registration process or via a poll gadget on site itself for users to answer. The details then added to users public ...

Google Makes Friend Connect “Friendlier” with New Features
Search Engine Journal — If you have implemented Google Friend Connect on your blogs or websites, you’d either be glad or get annoyed by the new features that Google rolled out. These new features aim to make Google Friend Connect more social with the hopes of making Google Friend Connect a better social networking platform.First Google Friend Connect now lets you add widget-like questions that will encourage your visitors to interact with each other as well as communicate with you.  Visitors will see these questions and answer them the moment they enter your site. The questions could be anything that will elicit ...

Google Friend Connect Joins Forces with Twitter
Search Engine Journal — ... If you’re not yet into Google Friend Connect, now may be the right to start using it. Learn more about Google Friend Connect from this site. ...