Still in Beta Of Course

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6 commentsThursday, December 4, 2008

Google Launches Friend Connect After Months of Waiting

Still in Beta Of Course

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By goheels (WPN reader) - Sun, 02/08/2009 - 11:16

Not that friendly

Google Friends Connect is a work in progress. Good Idea and eventually it will be a good thing but I find it very hard to get the two required files to upload to the site. I did get one site to work and when sending invites to people to join the url is not clickable and in order for them to join they would have to cut and paste the url. NOT! so I have not sent invites until that is fixed. On the other issue maybe they don't let you do but one site???? What is suppose to be easy and friendly is a joke. Only gurus will be able to get it to work.

By لحظة وداع (WPN reader) - Wed, 12/31/2008 - 05:44

thanks for post

By kennel cough (WPN reader) - Mon, 12/08/2008 - 03:56

something unusual here

Well something not new here.This is the same feature I saw on Mybloglog.I am surprised by how long it takes to get Google to finally publish this feature considering the huge marketing appeal it attracts.Well good luck here for Google.

By Matthieu Catillon (WPN reader) - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 11:50

Against publishers interest ?

Could it be a threat to the publishers' forums? If users can interact and communicate through other means then the forums could collapse... users would not use them to communicate / socialize anymore. They would not contribute anymore. That would mean failure for G Connect, Facebook Connect and any Connect like service. The only way for these "Connect products" to succeed would be that the potential trafic acquisition (users' friends not familiar with the website) offset the reduced trafic in the forums... Matt

By Matthieu Catillon (WPN reader) - Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:25

Against publishers' interest ?

By Chris Crum - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 12:05

RE: Against publishers interest?

Not a bad point. Of course, not all sites have forums or other means of socializing, so I would expect this would be more appealing to them, as it could cut into their own forum use.

Still, I think the branding potential of Google Friend Connect (or Facebook Connect for that matter) could be an attractive element to publishers looking to get their brands spread more into other popular communities.