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Google Press Center: News Announcement
May 12, 2008 Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social Easily insert social features to make "any app, any site, any friends" a reality MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 12, 2008) – Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex ( http://code.google.com/campfire/ ), Google ...
Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
googleblog.blogspot.com — Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the... trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or ... (more) Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
Google, It Wasn’t Broke
Google, It Wasn’t Broke
techcrunch.com — Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing. But to mess with the real Google search is... serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live). ... (more) Google, It Wasn’t Broke
Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page
Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page
searchengineland.com — Google will announce today ( Update: official announcement ) the launch of SearchWiki, a major addition to... its user interface that allows users to edit search results. When using SearchWiki, you can re-order, remove, or add web pages to the search ... (more) Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own ...
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Google Friend Connect - Ready to Launch?
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... Google generally introduces new products or new features in existing products through short YouTube videos and this Friend Connect video may therefore be a hint about the public launch. If you like to see Friend Connect in action, go to Orli Yakuel’s blog and check the Friends widget in the right sidebar – that’s an OpenSocial Apps powered by Google Friend Connect. The Google blog has more details about how Friend Connect works while this press release touches upon some more possible uses of Friend Connect. ...

Open Beta of Google Friend Connect Coming Soon?
ReadWriteWeb — ... In an early press release about Friend Connect, Google stated that this initiative was about helping the 'long tail' of sites to become more social. While we might worry about  some of the details of Google's implementation, this by itself is a worthy cause, and it will be interesting to see how site owners will implement Friend Connect once it becomes publically available. ...

Getting Started With Google Friend Connect
louisgray.com — By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed) Back in May, Google announced their plans to launch Friend Connect. Friend Connect allows website owners to incorporate social aspects and elements onto their sites. It's powered by OpenSocial, which was developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks. In a nutshell, OpenSocial is basically a set of common APIs used for building and distributing social ...

p2pnet connect
p2pnet news — ... . With it, “any website owner can add a snippet of code to t his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community,” it said.  So I thought I’d give it a shot with p2pnet connect. ...

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