Google Friend Connect Review
Google has launched a new social networking service called Google Friend Connect. This new service, lets non-technical site owners sprinkle social features throughout their websites, so visitors will easily be able to join with their AOL, Google, OpenID, and Yahoo! credentials. You’ll be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web like Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, LinkedIn, orkut, Plaxo, and others.. Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.
Bloggers can attract more visitors. Visitors bring along friends from social networks to interact on your site. You can choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets provided by Google and the OpenSocial developer community. All you have to do is copy and paste snippets of code into your site, and Google Friend Connect does the rest.
Google is creating a wait list for requests to use Friend Connect, and expects to green light a few dozen sites in the next few days. You can apply here.
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