{"id":1396,"date":"2009-03-25T02:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T07:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2009-03-26T04:28:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T09:28:39","slug":"google-friend-connect-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/25\/google-friend-connect-revisited","title":{"rendered":"Google Friend Connect, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I decided to try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/19\/google-friend-connect-and-the-social-bar\">Google Friend Connect and their Social Bar<\/a>. I still haven&#8217;t figured out its use fully yet, but maybe its there for keeping my readers connected to each other?<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/3381801416\/\" title=\"Is this what Google Friend Connect is for? by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3556\/3381801416_9464c09723_o.jpg?resize=618%2C38\" width=\"618\" height=\"38\" alt=\"Is this what Google Friend Connect is for?\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>A modest number of folk have joined, but today I noticed them becoming friends. Win?<\/p>\n<p>Its good to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btimes.com.my\/\">Business Times<\/a> in Malaysia has something similar. All this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/myzope.kedai.com.my\/blogs\/kedai\/231\">work<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/myzope.kedai.com.my\/blogs\/kedai\/232\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kedai\">@kedai<\/a>. Lots of members, but no conversation yet, so it proves that there&#8217;s not much great use of it yet. I notice that there is a &#8220;Like!&#8221; activity (look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btimes.com.my\/Current_News\/BTIMES\/articles\/zorra\/Article\/copy_of_index_html\">this<\/a> for example), which then gets shared in the stream (not a comment but it says &#8220;username liked article&#8221;). This is again something kedai wrote, which is a very <a href=\"http:\/\/myzope.kedai.com.my\/blogs\/kedai\/232\">simple activity<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He, like I, wants to know how else you can socialise a site?<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Robert Scoble speaks to Kevin Marks about this, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FxxlMD6FZuQ\">video<\/a> itself is pretty interesting. There&#8217;s also a little discussion happening <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/e\/4e809b60-e267-425c-bc00-d3559328ad09\/I-visited-Kevin-Marks-at-Google-today-Here-s-the\/\">on FriendFeed<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I decided to try Google Friend Connect and their Social Bar. I still haven&#8217;t figured out its use fully yet, but maybe its there for keeping my readers connected to each other? A modest number of folk have joined, but today I noticed them becoming friends. Win? Its good to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[824,755,150,756,376],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-times","tag-friend-connect","tag-google","tag-social-bar","tag-social-networking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}