News!! What Is Google Friend Connect

This article describes Google Friend Connect, together with how it tin laissez passer notice locomote used at the moment.

Google Friend Connect (GFC) was 1 of Google's before social-networking attempts, introduced inwards 2008.

Originally (you tin laissez passer notice nevertheless run across the total description here), GFC promised a arrive at of social features that website-owners, including bloggers, could include on their sites. including:

• Add GFC features to a website past times installing snippets of HTML code onto the site, or or using the  API.
• Users sign inwards to your website, using GFC alongside an existing employment organisation human relationship (e.g. Google, Yahoo, AOL)
• Users tin laissez passer notice create or import profiles (e.g. Twitter), discovery other users, together with shipping individual messages to each other.
• Social gadgets, eg for posting comments together with links, rating together with reviews, that you lot could add together to your site, which your visitor could utilization 1 time they had logged inwards alongside GFC.
• Website owners tin laissez passer notice ready questions to locomote asked when a user used GFC to bring together their site. The thought was for them to honor out their member's interests - together with that the information would locomote on the member's GFC profile.
• Tools to create, create create together with shipping website newsletters, which could locomote personalised, based on the answers that members gave when joining the community.
• Matching AdSense ads on shown to users looking at your website site to the interests they had listed on their GFC profile.
• Tools to await at your user's interests together with your site's membership statistics.

Effectively, Google Friend Connect was a grouping of tools, together with about materials inwards the background to brand them run together:  The tools were for website owners who wanted to grow a community, together with for "information consumers"  (that agency people who read blogs together with websites) who wanted to sign-up to their favourites sites.

You tin laissez passer notice honor out to a greater extent than most how they were supposed to run inwards this video - for equally long equally it's nevertheless available on YouTube:

What happened

Less than iv years after the launch, Google here piece I was researching this article.   What it agency is that if you lot signed upwardly to a blog/sites using the GFC-Follow gadget, thence you lot tin laissez passer notice utilization the bottom utilization of the Blogger dashboard instead of an RSS reader.

Today, readers tin laissez passer notice nevertheless sign upwardly for websites which convey the Follow on Google Friend Connect gadget on them, but the gadget cannot locomote added to whatever novel sites, at to the lowest degree non using Blogger's measure tools for announced that Friend Connect would locomote "retired for all non-blogger sites inwards March 2012".   Their annunciation was lite on details most what precisely this meant, but reading diverse weblog posts it seems that:

• The GFC dashboard, where users could create create their profiles was turned off
• The site where website owners could instruct the code to install the GFG gadget  (and create other things similar shipping newsletter or instruct statistics) was turned off.
• Blogger users could nevertheless add together teh GFC gadget to their blogs   (until the widget was removed inwards ... non certain precisely when, but it's non available now).
• Updates from non-blogger sites were no longer sent through GFC.
• Updates from Blogger sites were nevertheless shipping through GFC, together with users could conk along to instruct them through Google Reader (until it was turned off inwards July 2013) or the Blogger Dashboard.

Google didn't furnish laissez passer whatever options for moving GFC user or human relationship information into whatever other tools.

And why?

Overall, my approximate is that GFC didn't instruct plenty users - or mayhap it only didn't laissez passer Google alongside plenty of a platform for the social features that they wanted.  Possibly this was because:

• The things which Google Friend Connect promised a discover of privacy / safety questions. I can't position my finger on precisely what worried me - but somehow it only sounds incorrect to me..
• People asked "Why would I desire to part all my interests alongside someone only because I read their website? I tin laissez passer notice maybe empathise it for a blog, but non for websites inwards general."

So why did anyone bother - together with why is the GFC Followers gadget nevertheless on about blogs.

Obviously at that topographic point were problems alongside Google Friend Connect:   Personally, I never quite understood it, despite using Blogger long before GFC was introduced.   Even when I started Blogger-HAT inwards belatedly 2009, GFC only never stood out equally something that was important-enough for me to understand.

But about people did utilization it - together with inwards especial plenty Blogger users that Google decided non to plough it off for Blogger.

I noticed that other people had a GFC gadget on their blogs, thence I added 1 to Blogger-HAT - equally much equally anything because I utilization it equally a test-site to attempt out features to run across how the mightiness run on my other sites.

Finally today, the penny dropped when I saw this a comment "some people that they used their GFC/Blogger Dashboard inwards identify of something similar Google Reader" here piece I was researching this article.   What it agency is that if you lot signed upwardly to a blog/sites using the GFC-Follow gadget, thence you lot tin laissez passer notice utilization the bottom utilization of the Blogger dashboard instead of an RSS reader.

Today, readers tin laissez passer notice nevertheless sign upwardly for websites which convey the Follow on Google Friend Connect gadget on them, but the gadget cannot locomote added to whatever novel sites, at to the lowest degree non using Blogger's measure tools for adding a gadget to your blog.

The Blogger-dashboard is nevertheless beingness updated alongside posts from Blogger-based sites that you've signed upwardly to using GFC.

Lots of people are speculating that sooner or afterward this volition locomote turned off, but no 1 knows precisely when that volition happen.

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