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Friend Connect: What now Google?

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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friend Look Google I realize that you have gotten your panties all in a twist about this social media thing and are hoping that your Hail Mary with Buzz is the answer you’ve been looking for.

However I have a question for you.

What the hell am I suppose to do with all this Friend Connect stuff you were pushing on us bloggers a while back?

You know. That fancy little sidebar gadget in my left hand sidebar area. Ya, that one. Is there even any purpose to it anymore? Do you plan at some time on unifying all this crap?

I’m more than willing to go through this colicky period with you when it comes to Buzz as it’s the new baby on the block because I think you might be onto something. However it would be nice to know what we are suppose to do with this Friend Connect stuff. Are we investing our time and blog space for some other Google product that is going to go away at some point?

Like I’ve cruised through some of the goodies you have for Friend Connect and they look pretty cool. In fact I’d be more than willing to drop the Facebook crap on my other blog and move everything over to Friend Connect except I’m not sure if I’d be wasting my time or not.

So how about some clarification Google. Give us an idea of whether this is just a waste of time or if you are going to pull all these different social media efforts together at some point.

Please.

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WinExtra joins Google’s Friend Connect

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Steven Hodson
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friendconnectOne of the newest sidebar baubles that is showing up in blog sidebars is a new Google Friend Connect widget. I first really saw it in action after Duncan over at The Inquisitr was lucky enough to be among the early users of it. Now I didn’t think that WinExtra would be high enough profile to warrant being included in the beta run of Google’s Friend connect but I figured what the hell and applied anyway.

That was a few days ago and I had pretty well forgotten about it until I got an email this afternoon letting be know I’d been accepted and to go get my code. Needless to say I promptly headed off to the supplied link like a good little blogger with a new toy to play with. With the code all in place you can now join WinExtra as a “friend”, just look for the Friend Connect widget in the sidebar to the right..

Some early thoughts

Uhm … now what?

Really … other than letting you have the avatars of people who have joined as friends of the site what is this bringing to the table for bloggers? I’ve been hearing terms like viral and other such buzzwords about how this will help spread the word about a blog; but I’m not sure how this is suppose to happen.

On the Friend Connect site where bloggers manage their account there are a bunch of other widgets that we can add to the sidebar. While these widgets let members leave comments, rate the site or posts I think that this will probably benefit Google in the end – but time will tell I guess.

As for those extra widgets – I think I’ll hold off until either there are actual site members to uses them or someone can give me some good examples on how they’ll help. If you are curious about Friend Connect for blogs here’s a short video from Google

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