Filed under: Blogging, Google, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0
Google Friend Connect spotted in the wild
The widget looks a lot like the recent readers widgets you find from services like MyBlogLog. But Friend Connect offers users the opportunity to interact with their contacts and communities more deeply without leaving the current web page. For example, Yakuel has added a comment widget that lets FriendConnect users who sign up to be members of her blog to leave comments that are visible to other members.
When you visit a site with a FriendConnect widget you can invite your Google contacts or friends from other sites including MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, or Plaxo to join the community.
Yakuel says there are only a handful of Google gadgets available at the moment, but says there is a section where you can grab gadgets from third party developers, much like the gadget gallery for iGoogle and Google Desktop.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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Louai Munajim said 12:00PM on 6-13-2008
I would love it if I could use it as well. I signed up for it about a month ago. And would love to start adding it to my website.
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Lisa said 3:13PM on 9-04-2008
Same here, i'm still waiting for it....tik tok tik tok tik tok
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