{"id":1460,"date":"2008-05-14T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/google-friend-connect-brings-social-media-to-any-website\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T13:58:06","slug":"google-friend-connect-brings-social-media-to-any-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/google-friend-connect-brings-social-media-to-any-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Friend Connect brings social media to any website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/files\/2008\/05\/openadconnect.jpg\" hspace=\"7\" alt=\"Google Friends connect\" height=\"176\" \/>If you own a website, you&#8217;ll be able to turn it into a social network soon, thanks to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/googlepress.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/previewing-google-friend-connect_12.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Friend Connect. <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">By adding a snippet of code to your site, you&#8217;ll be able to get social features up and running immediately without programming. Pick and choose from\u00a0user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting,\u00a0as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Google says GoogleFriend Connect\u00a0has three big advantages:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"body\">\n<li>It will drive traffic. People\u00a0who discover interesting sites can bring their friends with them, and can opt-in to publish their activities on those sites back into their social network, attracting even more visitors.<\/li>\n<li>Increase engagement: access to friends and OpenSocial applications provides more interesting content and richer social experiences.<\/li>\n<li>It will require less work because you won&#8217;t need a programmer, just the coding.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I particularly like the fact that this will allow website owners to invite visitors to review things like products and free articles.\u00a0 Studies show that product reviews\u00a0bring more credibility to a website and\u00a0encourage visitors to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a website, you&#8217;ll be able to turn it into a social network soon, thanks to Google Friend Connect. By adding a snippet of code to your site, you&#8217;ll be able to get social features up and running immediately without programming. Pick and choose from\u00a0user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting,\u00a0as well as\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/google-friend-connect-brings-social-media-to-any-website\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":5,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[67],"class_list":{"0":"post-1460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-google","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41554,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/41554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}