A few months back we launched our current site and added Google Friend Connect because it’s obviously a good idea to do so. Right? Why is that, again? Honestly at the time I wasn’t sure why it was useful. Google Wave and Buzz had recently uninspired the world (after piquing much anticipatory interest) but Friend Connect’s gotta be a good thing…Right? Either way I was eager to learn about it.
In the subsequent months a lot of people followed our site but immediately asked this question: “I followed. Now what?” My answer was always: “Basically it just allows you to show support and keep tabs on blogs you like through an existing profile, Twitter, Google or Blogger.” Also I expect that Google intends for all of these seemingly lackluster properties to improve in time and eventually form like Voltron to be our one-stop Google Web interface and dashboard to external profiles like Twitter or Amazon. We’ll see how that progresses without Facebook on the team simultaneously developing their own Facebook Connect functionalities.
Opinions aside, Wikipedia outlines these uses Google Friend Connect:
- E-commerce site: allow users to check whether friends purchased or reviewed the product they are interested in on the product web page.
- News sites: allow users to insert comments and opinions with their real profile.
- Organization Sites: increase marketing and communication within members of the organization.
- Blogs and Personal Websites: increase communication within author friends.
Now that you’re fully convinced of the debatable awesomeness of Friend Connect, please feel free to join this blog via the portal on the lower right hand side of our site. Thanks!
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