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Google Friend Connect APIs & Examples

Jeff — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:21:29 +0000

Google Friend Connect lets site owners instantly awaken and strengthen the community that visits their web site. Friend Connect:

Makes it easy for every site owner to add Friend Connect to their site regardless of their technical capabilities.
Uses open standards to let visitors control their own data and freely share it with sites and services as they see fit. Services include OpenID providers like Yahoo, social network providers like Twitter, and update aggregators like Plaxo Pulse.

Friend Connect APIs enable developers to:

Integrate social flows and data directly within a page’s markup, via the OpenSocial standard specification.
Integrate existing login systems, registered users, and existing data with new social data and activities.
Create social gadgets & services that are embeddable within millions of Friend Connect enabled sites.

Google Friend Connect APIs – Google Code.

Code Examples

Google I/O

Jeff — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:57:17 +0000

“For two days in May, thousands of web developers will come together to learn how to develop web applications with Google and open technologies. Learn from product experts about Android, App Engine, Chrome, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX APIs and more. Engage with a community of excited developers just like you.”

Read More: Google I/O.

Testing the Google Friend Connect on my website…

Jeff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:56:37 +0000

So I wrote earlier about using the new Google Friend Connect on a test page I setup. I decided to make a leap and put it on my site. The integration was made easier by using a plugin that I found here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-friend-connect-integration/

If you are wondering what Google Friend Connect is, you can check this out:

http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

It is all working really well and the plugin gives you the ability to add Google widgets to your site. For a test I added the iLike Google widget to the bottom of my right column… So far I am pleased with the test. I just need to see about expanding on this further. It also gave me an excuse to install WordPress 2.7…

Try Google Friend Connect…

Jeff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:03:09 +0000

Want to add social network features to your site easily? Try Google Friend Connect:

http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

Here is a quick example I threw together in a couple of minutes based on some of the widgets made available:

http://thewarp.org/google/friendconnect/

It looks very promising.