Blog Reactions
WebProNews Feed: Google Aims to Put the "Friend" in Friend Connect
paidContent: To Serve Better Ads, Google's Social Platform Gets Nosier
Technologizer: Google Friend Connect: More Ways to Connect Friends
| Break the ice! New personalization features in Google Friend Connect http://bit.ly/3KjYh7 5 days ago |
| [Google] Google Friend Connect, now more personalized http://bit.ly/31jEur 14 days ago |
| #FriendConnect RT @googletoday On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks... http://bit.ly/4EKMcR 15 days ago |
Google Aims to Put the "Friend" in Friend Connect
WebProNews Feed —
... "For instance, if you have a music website, you might ask people to share their favorite bands, the last concert they attended, or where they discover new music," explains Google Friend Connect Product Manager Mussie Shore. "Or if you run a hiking site, you can ask them about a favorite hike or national park. The details people share are added to their Friend Connect public profiles for your site, which are seen by other site visitors. This way, your visitors can learn more about each other in the context of the interests that bring them to your website." ...
To Serve Better Ads, Google's Social Platform Gets Nosier
paidContent —
... ) pushed out a big upgrade to Friend Connect, with new features that let publishers serve more targeted ads, create newsletters and even offer IMs on their sites through its social platform. ...
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.
There are a bunch of new features, all of which you can add to a site by pasting in code that creates gadgets on your pages.
You can create a questionnaire that asks new visitors about their interests, then puts their answers in their profiles and helps ...
Google Friend Connect Gets Personal
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... Google Friend Connect can help convert any site into a Google-supported social network. In addition to allowing members of your site to send each other private messages, now Google is bringing its personalization home to your site with Friend Connect. ...
Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests
Ars Technica —
... by making it easier for users with shared interests to connect with one another. The company has announced a number of new features for its Google Friend Connect that center on collecting and utilizing information about a site users' interests. ...
Google Adds Customizable Features to Friend Connect
AppScout —
... "For instance, if you have a music website, you might ask people to share their favorite bands, the last concert they attended, or where they discover new music," Google wrote in a blog post. "Or if you run a hiking site, you can ask them about a favorite hike or national park." ...
Google Friend Connect offers personalization and AdSense ads
D' Technology Weblog —
... 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 Connect profiles, enabling users to learn more about each other, and also allow you to display more relevant ads. From "AdSense" section of your Friend Connect account, you can either create new ad units that take users' interests into account or choose to enhance existing ad units on your website. Here’s a quick tour of new features: ...
Apple App Store now carries 100,000 apps, Google Friend Connect adds personalization features, Verizon to up early termination fee to $350 on "advanced devices"
Obsessable News Feed —
... Google Friend Connect has received new customization features and tools designed to help visitors to websites find out what they have in common. When users sign up for a new website through ...
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 ...





