Google Friend Connect

Tue, Dec 9, 2008, by Preetam Kaushik

Search Engines

Google Friend Connect helps web owners achieve higher traffic hits on their websites by providing social features for visitors.

The world is no longer that enormous glob that was known for its vastness and unreachable ends, thanks to the advancements made in information and communication technology. The internet is a powerful tool that contains valuable information, entertainment resources and provides a way by which people can socialize.

Websites are created with a core objective of achieving maximum traffic possible. In order to achieve this goal, features for socializing have become more than necessary for many websites and search engines. Organizations such as Yahoo, AIM, Google and OpenID have rushed to fulfill this burning need through the creation of social networks.

Even sites that are nothing close to social networks need to be socially interactive. Google Friend Connect helps web owners achieve higher traffic hits on their websites by providing social features for visitors. Functionalities such as user registration, members’ gallery, reviews, message postings, invitations as well as third-party applications are inbuilt in Google Friend Connect.

Google Friend Connect which was launched recently makes it possible to interact with friends all over the world. Google Friend Connect is open for use by anyone with an account in Google, Yahoo, OpenID and AIM. After signing in to Google Friend Connect, you can invite friends to join, create a list of contacts and enjoy social moments online by sharing media, play games, post comments and do much more.

For those who would like to enrich theirs sites, Google Friend Connect has remarkable social features from which to choose courtesy of the OpenSocial developer community and Google. The social gadgets that are incorporated in friend connect will ensure that your website is more engaging and fun for visitors.

You can copy and paste snippets of code from a gallery of gadgets for photo sharing, games, concert listings and much more. Once this has been done, the snippets start running instantly without any need for special intervention. Friend connect is easy to use and does not involve any programming activities by the user.

Google Frind Connect has been developed to enable website owners to add features that engage site visitors without having to invest heavily in technology and other resources. It also solves the daunting task of having to create new logins, profiles, and friends lists for different websites that you may desire to sign into. Once signed in, a user can interact with other people from social sites such as Google Talk, Facebook, Orkut, hi5, and Plaxo among others.

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