Enrich your Life with Google Friend Connect
Monday, June 29, 2009
Google Friend Connect is an online, open social service offered by Google. It allows users to communicate with their friends on other websites. Now, you don’t have to be on the same site as everyone else, but you can still communicate with them. The only catch is that the website has to allow the application to communicate with it.
Google Friend Connect uses features such as OpenId (when you sign in) and oAuth to help control the data. With the blend of the different open products, this effective new technology is bound to become a popular means of communication.
Websites that are not as advanced as the social networking sites can now take advantage of Google Friend Connect, as users can use their Google, Yahoo and other credentials to sign in and then the website owners can have some sort of social networking sprinkled throughout their site. A lot of codes would have to be written to allow sites to function in this way, but Google Friend Connect allows the website to stay the way that it is and allows the consumer to use their other applications from Google, Yahoo, etc to interact with the non-social websites.
Basically, what this all means is that now the web itself has become social! Yes, the public is social and we communicate with each other to the extent that sites such as Twitter have become ‘addictive’; however, in the past websites could not communicate with each other. With the new technology that Google Friend Connect has offered, websites can now be social with each other.
The development of a social friends list is valued by many online users. Now, the users can take their friends with them to other sites. Google Friend Connect doesn’t steal your log in information, your password information or your friend’s IDs and it doesn’t share any information with other sites. It is a completely friendly interface that allows the user to control where they want to link their Friend Connect count to.
The users and the website owners are in complete control of what happens with their account and/or website. Website owners can choose what type of social platform that they want to incorporate into their site and users can leave comments, participate in forums and so on. Google Friend Connect allows you to do more than just leave comments. API formats allow virtually any type of social interaction to be possible and with the incorporation of some type of social platform onto a website; website owners will see a decrease in spam.
Google Friend Connect is completely free for both, the users and the website owners. It allows for social integration to be possible with very little effort. Users can take their friends with them anywhere that they can go. The only aspect that is shared from site to site is the users photo ID, and the users still have control over that.
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Sign in to Google Friend Connect with an Open ID
Friday, January 9, 2009
You already have your own OpenID if you use one of the following services:
Flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/username
LiveDoor
profile.livedoor.com/username
LiveJournal
username.livejournal.com
SmugMug
username.smugmug.com
Technorati
technorati.com/people/technorati/username
Vox
member.vox.com
WordPress.com
username.wordpress.com
Alternatively, If you don’t have an OpenID yet, you can register with the following:
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How Google Friend Connect Can Boost an Online Business
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Those that are currently running an online business are probably reaping many rewards. Online sales revenues are well into the billions of dollars per year. This makes an online business far more attractive to entrepreneurs than the costly start up fees commonly associated with traditional brick and mortar businesses. Additionally, there are a number of excellent online venues that can greatly aid in promoting an online business. One of these free promotional venues is the newly emerging Google Friend Connect system.
What is Google Friend Connect? It is a streamlined process provided by Google for both commercial and non-commercial websites to communicate and connect with one another is an easier manner. So, if you have an online business you could connect your business with others on the web that have websites. Also, if your online business has a profile on a social networking site, it can centralize and connect all the friends you have on all these social networking sites. One of the most obvious benefits that you can derive from this is the ability to greatly expand your presence online and communicate with enormous volumes of people in a streamlined and easy manner. This would have the obvious benefit of greatly expanding your ability to promote you online business in a simple and cost effective manner.
If you are operating an online business, there are two things you will need: traffic and a decent online presence. Google Friend Connect is a tremendous vehicle for delivering direct traffic. Additionally, it can aid in expanding an online business' presence all throughout the internet. How is this achieved? To understand how the process works it is necessary to look at both of these facets individually and how Google Friend Connect aids in achieving both goals.
The ability to communicate is critical for any online business. When communications can be facilitated easily and to large volumes of people in a short period of time, an online business can reap huge revenues. For example, if an online business were to offer a special deal or offer, it could send the information through its amassed social network. This would allow it to reach untold scores of people within seconds. This can lead to a significant drive in direct traffic from a variety of sources.
Additionally, one could become quite creative with the use of Google Friend Connect's ability to drive traffic and covert such traffic into sales. For example, an online business could send out an offer for a sale that is good exclusively for those members of the network. There could also be a time limit on the sale such as 24 hours. Such a special offer would clearly drive a great deal of traffic to the business' websites. Also, the special deal would work wonders for stimulating sales conversions.
Of course, the business' presence on the internet would increase as more and more websites, profiles, and friends are added into the network. The more people that see and hear about the business, the more people will see it as a serious online commercial entity. (Familiarity breeds comfort and credibility with consumers) As such, perpetually expanding the network will aid in increasing the business' online presence stratospherically. Best of all, because Google Friend Connect is open, not limited to a specific social network or online community, the expansion of this presence can go on for infinity. That alone can allow an online business to grow exponentially in a very short period of time.
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Introducing: Friend Connect Directory
Monday, December 15, 2008
The newest directory to the WWW for Google Friend Connect Users!
Check out FriendConnectDirectory.com
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