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TAG | Google aims to make web sites more social and connect friends |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 13 May 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorisation APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, LinkedIn and others. In the video demo, the web developer who maintains the site for independent musician Ingrid Michaelson showed how she added social networking features to her offical website www.ingridmichaelson.com from music social networking site iLike using Google Friend Connect. As a result, fans who visit the site can connect with their friends without having to leave the site. Visitors will be able to see comments by friends from their social networks, add music to their profiles, see who is attending concerts, and enjoy other features of the iLike application, at the musician's website. "We want to bring ourselves to every eyeball, not bring every eyeball to us," said Hadi Partovi, President of iLike. "Friend Connect is a significant opportunity for iLike, artists, and fans. The iLike Artist Dashboard will be the first content-management system that allows artists not only to post their songs, concerts, and videos to every leading social network from one dashboard, but also to simultaneously manage the content on their own websites." According to Google, Google Friend Connect has been developed to lower two barriers to the spread of social features across the web. First, many website owners want to add features that enable their visitors to do things with their friends, but the technology and resource hurdles have been too high. Second, people are tiring of needing to create new logins and profiles and recreate their friends lists wherever they go on the web. Google Friend Connect offers a solution to both these issues. CONTINUED |
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