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Google Announces Its Plans To Launch 'Friend Connect'  By
Navneet Kaushal
In an effort to join the field of social network data portability, Google has announced its plans to launch 'Friend Connect'. This feature will enable website owners to grow traffic by taking profile information from social networking websites and putting that information onto third party websites. With the help of Friend Connect, any non-social networking website can give itself the looks and basic functionalities of a social network website. By simply adding a snippet of code in their websites, Webmasters can now almost immediately embed social networking features such as user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the Open-Social developer community. Because of the code provided with this service, the need for extensive programming has been eliminated. All those websites using Google Friend Connect feature will able to provide their visitors with options to see, invite, and interact with new friends. The visitors can also use secure API (Applications Programming Interface) to reach out to their friends from other social networking websites such as Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, Orkut, Plaxo, and many more. Some of the advantages that Google Friend Connect provides to the Webmasters are:
• Drive Traffic: Interesting websites attract users, who in turn bring in their friends and thus increase the website's user base and site traffic as well. • Enhanced Access: The access that this feature provides to friends and Open-Social Applications helps in providing more interesting content with a better and a fun-filled online social experience. • No Hassles: The specialty of this feature is that it does not involve complex programming or the need of professional developers. Any Webmaster can have social components, without losing the theme and track of his website. At Webmaster World, there is a thread about the same topic with some interesting posts. Here are a few of them for our readers "Reminds me of a post I made awhile ago where I argued that the social networking of the future won't be "owned" but will be hosted, with "community" assembled "on the fly, for a specified duration as a service" by a "broadcast and listening" system with "credentialing and preliminary/escalating de-privatization" where one's "profile", i.e., one's "social graph" won't be stored by anyone other than the individual and it will be "exposed" only by assent and in measured degree in response to "listening queries or records of interest" communicated to the broadcast and listening system. Continue reading this article.
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