Google Friend Connect Launches its Social Bar (Search Engine Journal) Fresh from initial launch, the Official Google Social Web Blog has posted it?s first official post announcing a new feature of Google Friend Connect - the Social Bar. The Social Bar makes it easy for site owners to beef up the sociability of their sites by adding a a social toolbar which will contain the [...] Read More...
Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend Connect Feature (TechCrunch) Google is now making it easier for Websites to surface Friend Connect features with what it is calling the Social Bar. This is a toolbar that Websites can add to their homepage or any other page they wish, and then they can add links for drop-down gadgets that lets site visitors do things such as sign in via Friend Connect, see who else has signed in recently, check out comments, or site ... Read More...
Make Your Site More Social With Google Friend Connect?s Social Bar (Mashable) The battle over your website?s community wages on. Not to be outdone by Facebook Connect and its many great implementations , Google Friend Connect, which previously tacked on Twitter integration , is now getting a bit more social. Google?s new Social Web Blog introduces us to the the social bar, a new gadget that ?concentrates many of the basic social functions into a small strip at ... Read More...
Google Introduces Social Bar (WebProNews) The Google Friend Connect Team has introduced a new feature to the service - a social bar. You can set the bar to appear at the top or bottom of you page. read more Read More...
Google Launches New Official Blog Focused on Social Web - We Are Suspicious (ReadWriteWeb) Remember the Google-led OpenSocial project? Google FriendConnect? For some period of time last year, Google was talked about as a leading innovator in the new "social web." Facebook, and to some degree OpenID, stole Google's thunder as 2008 came to an end. Now in order to get back into the conversation, Google has launched its 80th official blog - the Google Social Web Blog . Sponsor ... Read More...
O'Brien: Location-based mobile services promise real world connections (San Jose Mercury News) Last week, Google rolled out its Latitude service, a mobile application that allows people to view the location of their friends on a map. These types of services represent an exciting evolution in mobile computing, but it will be a long time before they're really useful to most of us. Chris O'Brien's blog | More Google Read More...