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Google Releases Friend Connect and Plans another Revenue Stream

December 29, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Google released Friend Connect recently, and already the company is planning to develop a revenue stream from it, a number of reports suggest. Friend Connect is a ‘widget’ that allows website owners to add a Web 2.0 dimension to their sites by adding social network functionalities. See this video for a deeper insight.

Google's turn: Friend Connect is live, too

Google, likely in reaction to the official rollout of Facebook Connect, has opened up its universal log-in system, Google Friend Connect. Journalists on Thursday received a hurried e-mail saying, "Starting today, any website owner is welcome to add Friend Connect to his or her website -- no need to be whitelisted. We'll be posting on the Official Google Blog soon with additional details."

Twitter Integrates With Google Friend Connect

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) on Monday announced that its Google Friend Connect service has been integrated with the Twitter microblogging service. The partnership means that, when users join a friend-connected site, they can choose to use their Twitter profile, and discover people who follow them on Twitter who are also members of the site. Google account holders will also be able to use their accounts to sign up for Twitter.

Twitter aligns with Google Friend Connect

It looks like Google has won the first salvo in the social ID battle. Google announced that its Friend Connect service is now compatible with Twitter, meaning that users can now use their Twitter logon information to log into other Friend-Connect compatible sites and share social networking information. And so far, no word from Twitter on when it will become compatible with Facebook's competing service, Facebook Connect. Chalk one up for open social networking standards.

He loved art and life

Award-winning artist Layton Lungile Phambo, 48, was a friend to art and a friend to life, says his artist friend Agrippa Nhlapo.

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Google Friend Connect Beta Officially Released

Google Friend Connect has become available in a beta version to any webmaster that is looking for additional “dash of social” to his or her site. According to a post that has been recently published on the official Google Blog, the service is meant to allow webmasters to add social features to their sites, by simply copying a few snippets of code, without the hassle of advance coding or the need of technical knowledge.

Twitter: Google Friend Connect?s social hub for the web?

Google Friend Connect, a service for finding friends or making new ones on any web site, has integrated popular micromessaging service Twitter. This isn’t just a mashup of Web 2.0 buzzwords, it could be an interesting new way to socialize on the web.

Testing Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect is now open for everyone, allowing you to add certain social gadgets to your site. The set-up requires you to upload two files to your root (called "canvas.html" and "rpc_relay.html"), and then you can pick embed code for different gadgets. I've embedded gadgets below, and may update and edit this post during the testing...

Is Friend Connect Just Another Revenue Source for Google?

Earlier this month, the Google team released "Friend Connect", a platform that lets webmasters add social featurs to their sites. The tool, which currently works on WordPress and Twitter among others, was however developed with the main goal to generate additional income for the company in order to better face the ongoing financial crisis.

Google Friend Connect syncs up with Twitter

These data portability announcements keep rolling on: On Monday, Google announced that its Google Friend Connect product, which plugs social-networking features into participating sites, is now compatible with Twitter.

Google Friend Connect increases spam risk

We added a test page to our website this week so I could try out Google Friend Connect, as I wanted to see for myself what the implications were for webmasters and users as the GFC "gadgets" gradually rolling out across the web. If you aren't aware of GFC, it is Google's attempt to "socialise" the web by enabling social networking type features to be easily added to existing websites, whether they have existing communities or not.

Google Friend Connect now available to the masses

This program has been in private beta for a while now — but just recently it was opened up for everyone to use. Friend Connect is an extremely simple way to make any website you have a bit more social — people that “join” your site (which I think can be confusing when you already have a mechanism for users to sign up) can use embedded Google gadgets which take advantage of Google’s Open Social API.

Google Friend Connect launches, eyes Facebook Connect

Connecting with friends and family is the theme of the season in many parts of the world, so it's fitting that Google wants to get in on the social fun. Going head-on with Facebook Connect's public release, albeit with a more distributed approach, Google has announced the public beta availability of Google Friend Connect, originally announced and previewed in May. As a standards-based platform for single sign-on and bringing existing social networks to other websites, Google is taking a more standards-based, though decentralized approach, to simplifying the social web.

Google Friend Connect Targets Facebook Connect

As a company, Google has never really been one to sit back and just watch what the other guys are doing; instead, the company is continuously venturing into new areas. Now, they’re looking to get in on the social networking action by going head-to-head with Facebook’s newly launched Connect. Similarly named, Google’s new Friend Connect makes it possible for website owners to embed review forms, comments, photo-sharing widgets, and other social tools that pull content from established communities such as Flickr.

Google Plots Ad Model for Friend Connect, OpenSocial Widgets

Sites registered with Google’s Friend Connect will soon be able to include AdSense-like advertising onto their sites and in Open Social widgets.

Google Plots Ad Model for Friend Connect, OpenSocial Widgets

Sites registered with Google's Friend Connect will soon be able to include AdSense-like advertising onto their sites and in Open Social widgets, reports TechCrunch.

Lonely camel gets new friend

Keepers at Marwell Zoo near Winchester, Hampshire, have been searching for a friend to live alongside bactrian camel Wacker.

Get Your ID War On -- Google Friend Connect Goes Live, Too

Google_logo_2 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.

Share Your Content with Tell-A-Friend

I love the new blog widget by SocialTwist called Tell-A-Friend. It's a pretty slick way for my readers to share content via email, instant messenger, social networks and bookmarks.

Google Grabs Twitter's API For Friend Connect* (GOOG)

choochoochoose.jpgTwitter cofounder Biz Stone announced this morning that Google integrated the micro-blogging service into its Google's Friend Connect service.

Browser flaw paves way for "undetectable" phishing attack

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