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Google Friend Connect - Ready to Launch?
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog —
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 pictures or even interact with other members who are part of your blog.
Google earlier opened Friend Connect for a limited number of users only but I suspect that the public launch of Friend Connect may happen very soon. That’s because Google today released a new video that gives a short introduction to Friend Connect and unlike previous videos, this one is more inclined towards marketing ...
Google Friend Connect May Soon Launch
WebProNews Feed —
[image] YouTube tutorial appears For once, Google looked to be a half-step (or more) behind. Yahoo s testing a social new homepage, Microsoft s rolling out a social Windows Live update, and from the search giant, nada on this front. Except, it seems, for Friend Connect, which just might launch soon. Friend Connect promises to do much more than what its name suggests, allowing website owners to add all sorts of social functions like invitations, members galleries, and message postings. A preview release has been up for discussion since May of this year. Only, again, progress appears to be taking place. Amit Agarwal writes, Google ...
Open Beta of Google Friend Connect Coming Soon?
ReadWriteWeb —
Just about half a year ago, Google announced the limited beta of Friend Connect, which allows site owners to display OpenSocial based gadgets on their sites and site visitors to sign in to these social gadgets with their OpenID, AIM, Yahoo, or Google accounts.
Amit Agarwal has been keeping a close eye on Friend Connect since it was announced and he assumes that the service could go live pretty soon. Just last week, Google published a new YouTube video geared towards users and now the support site for Friend Connect is available as well.
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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 of your Google contacts as well as ...
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.
You can see this in action right here on the sidebar of Mashable, where you can join our community using your Google credentials. You can also invite other people to join from within the application, either by emailing them (you’ll see a list of your Google contacts) or ...
Google Friend Connect - now available for everyone
The Next Web —
Want to add social features to your site letting users share information and interact with friends while visiting some of their favorite websites?
Google Friend Connect lets you do that now. This service was in a limited beta since May but now it’s open to all webmasters (open beta). Friend Connect uses open standards like OAuth and OpenID to accomplish this task. The websites which uses Friend Connect can also run OpenSocial applications created by OpenSocial developer community.
It lets websites access username and password of the users along with friends list, feed massages, profile info, reviews and other info.
Google ...
Google and Facebook Both Launch Friend Connect [Online Identity]
Lifehacker —
[image] Expect to see a whole lot more Google and Facebook sign-in boxes on sites all over the web from today going forward: in what you'd think was a planned parallel announcement, Google and Facebook launched their Friend Connect ...
Google Launches Friend Connect After Months of Waiting
WebProNews Feed —
[image] Still in Beta Of Course It has been quite the day for connecting. Not only did Facebook unleash Facebook Connect on the world, but Google has also now made Google Friend Connect available (in beta) as well. Friend Connect is basically a way to make your own site more social via a service from Google. By using the service, you are allowing people to socialize within your site using accounts they have already established from other parties (including Google itself). Google Friend Connect Friend Connect was first launched back in May as a preview release, but Google has been working a lot on it since then, and has expanded features "with ...
Get Your ID War On -- Google Friend Connect Goes Live, Too
Wired: Epicenter —
Never one to be outdone, Google released its Friend Connect technology as a public beta Thursday. The timing is curious, as it came within hours of Facebook's announcement that it had released its own Facebook Connect technology, which accomplishes a similar task -- data portability between social websites.
But while Facebook's system uses proprietary code and serves to establish relationships between Facebook users, the participating website and Facebook itself, Google's system is more open.
Friend Connect is built with open-source code, namely the open stack of OpenID, OAuth and OpenSocial. It makes social sharing ...
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. ...
So you have Google Friend Connect... Now What?
GO2WEB20 Blog —
It's been a while since I first integrated the Google Friend Connect gadgets in my blog (in June to be specific), and it has improved enormously since then. But I still find some problematic issues that needs to be fixed. If you'll go now to the Google Friend Connect site, you'll be able to easily set your site and grab a piece of code to place in your site or blog. You can choose from several gadgets that Google already has, when the most attractive one is the "Members Gadget". By adding this one to your blog, you are allowing readers to join the site, see other people ...
Google Friend Connect Available
D' Technology Weblog —
Google Friend Connect in beta is now open for everyone, looking to add a “social gadgets” to their site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by uploading two files to their root folder ”canvas.html” and “rpc_relay.html”, and then copying and pasting a few snippets of code, you can pick embed code for different gadgets.
“you don’t have to deal with the hassle of creating yet another username and password — Friend Connect lets you log in using an existing account from Google, Yahoo, ...
Google’s Friend Connect Open to All
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
I know that I should be excited about the endless possibilities that Google Friend Connect will bring, but I can’t help wonder how this service is any different from Yahoo’s MyBlogLog.
Anyway, if you’ve been itching to add Google Friend Connect to your own web site, you’re in for a good Friday. Google has just announced that–in no way connected to any threat that Facebook Connect may bring–Google Friend Connect is now open to all.
What’s all the fuss? You can view the video below:
In the meantime, a gold star to anyone that ...
Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
A few days ago, the top
news story on Techmeme was the fact that Google
launched Google Friend Connect and Facebook
announced the final version of Facebook Connect within minutes of each other.
Reading up on both announcements it seems interesting to note how most of the coverage
is about who will win the race to dominate the Web as opposed to what end user value
is actually being created by these technologies.
It was somewhat depressing until I read Dave Winer's brilliant post Soon
it will be time to start over, again which contains the following excerpt
We're now reaching the end of a cycle, ...
Twitter Gets Connected with Google
WebProNews Feed —
[image] Friend Connect Integrated with Twitter Google has announced that its new Friend Connect platform has now been integrated with Twitter. Now you can Tweet from any Friend Connect-supported site. "This means that when you join a friend connected site, you can choose to use your Twitter profile, discover people you follow on Twitter who are also members of the site, and quickly tweet that you have found a cool website," explains Google Friend Connect Product Manager Mussie Shore. [image] "With Google Friend Connect, Twitter folks will be able to bump into and recognize each other out there on the web and discover new people to follow on ...
Why Googlers Call Friend Connect “FriendSense”
TechCrunch —
It’s always fun to hear what Google employees call various projects when they think no one is listening. In 2007 they called upstart the upstart Hulu joint venture Clown Co. as a private joke about the messy start to that unlikely company (I was right there mocking Hulu with them, but later gave them their due when they failed to fail).
Now we’ve confirmed that inside the Googleplex their new social product, Friend Connect, is often referred to as “Friendsense.” Why? Because like Adsense, Google plans to use Friend Connect as a shoehorn to insert advertising onto third party websites.
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