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Google to Connect Friends and Advertisers
Technology Review Feed - TR Editors' blog —
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Google Friend Connect Introduces New Ways to Make Friends, Send Newsletters and See More Highly Targeted Ads
ReadWriteWeb —
Google just announced a number of major updates to Google Friend Connect (GFC), the company's set of tools that can bring social networking tools and widgets to any site. Today, Google is extending this functionality with a new 'Interests' section that will help a site's visitors to get to know each other, a newsletter tool and gadgets that display personalized content recommendations. Google now also allows site owners to connect the data they gather from their users with AdSense to display more highly targeted ads.
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Google Friend Connect sites start offering tailored web content, ads
VentureBeat —
More than a year ago Google and Facebook started a head-to-head race to build a social layer across the web with Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. The vision was — if you visited a web site, you’d get a custom experience based on your own interests and what your friends have been doing.
Today that’s becoming a bit more of a reality.
Google is releasing a series of widgets for its Friend Connect-enabled sites to give them personalized content, custom e-mail newsletters and advertisements. That’s a leg-up on rival Facebook, which offers widgets to find other Facebook fans and log-in credentials so you ...
Google Aims to Put the "Friend" in Friend Connect
WebProNews Feed —
Google has launched some new features for Google Friend Connect, aimed at letting site owners make their GFC experience more personalized and letting their visitors get to know each other.
A representative for Google tells WebProNews that 9 million sites are using Google Friend Connect, and pages with GFC get over half a billion unique visitors a month. Two people join every second, she says.
One of the new features is an "Interests" section, which lets a user add "site-relevant" questions that people can answer when joining their site or through Google's poll ...
Google Friend Connect Becomes More Like a Social Network
Mashable! —
There are a lot of players vying to become your gateway to rest of the web: Facebook Connect, OpenID, Sign In With Twitter, MySpace ID, and Google Friend Connect just to name a few. It’s Facebook Connect however that seems to be leaving all of the other connect methods in the dust. This includes Google Friend Connect, which without a major social network to back it has floundered in terms of adoption.
Google’s not about to hand over this potentially vital market over to Facebook, however. A few weeks ago, the company simplified the Friend Connect implementation process. Today, the search engine giant has ...
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 ...
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.
The shared interests that draw people to your site can make it easier ...
Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests
Ars Technica —
Google is improving its service aimed at providing websites with social networking features 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.
The new features start off with a several ways to poll users for information about their particular interests. From your Friend Connect account, you can create a poll to ask your users site-relevant questions about what they are into. Then, ...
Google Adds Customizable Features to Friend Connect
AppScout —
Google on Wednesday added some features to its Friend Connect product intended to help webmasters provide a more customizable experience.
First, Google added an "interests" section that lets webmasters ask people site-relevant questions when they sign up for the site or via a poll gadget.
"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 —
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 Connect profiles, enabling users ...
