Praveenpn.com » opensocial http://praveenpn.com/blog Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Friend Connect Launched http://praveenpn.com/blog/2008/12/04/google-friend-connect-launched/ http://praveenpn.com/blog/2008/12/04/google-friend-connect-launched/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:12:53 +0000 Praveen http://praveenpn.com/blog/2008/12/04/google-friend-connect-launched/ I got an email from Google last night which said that my email id was whitelisted for using friend connect.  Google friend connect is the approach google has taken for solving the social networking puzzle. It allows users to add gadgets(opensocial) to their sites/blogs. More about google friend connect here.

Setting up a site

Setting up friend connect on my blog was pretty simple. Added two files to my web server, filled up a couple of forms and done.
setup site

Adding gadgets

Right now there are only few gadgets available, gadgets are categorized into member gadgets(#2) and social gadgets(#5). The member gadget looks very similar to the MyBlogLog widget.
add member gadget

Anyone having a Google Id, Yahoo! Id, AIM Id or OpenID can connect with a site through the member gadget.
login support

As of now I have added two gadgets(members & wall) to my blog. Not sure if they’re gonna stay here for a long time ;)

Other than adding gadgets, there are more options like moderate posts, members & a very basic graph showing the user activity on the site, all these options are available for site admin only.
As of now friend connect looks very simple with less features and a handful of gadgets. The quality of gadgets will tell how much of an impact friend connect can make.

[tags]google, friend, connect, opensocial, beta, social, networking[/tags]

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