What is Google Friend Connect
This article describes Google Friend Connect, and how it can be used at the moment. Google Friend Connect (GFC) was one of Google's earlier social-networking attempts, introduced in 2008. Originally (you can still see the full description here ), GFC promised a range of social features that website-owners, including bloggers, could include on their sites. including: Add GFC features to a website by installing snippets of HTML code onto the site, or or using the API. Users sign in to your website, using GFC with an existing account (e.g. Google, Yahoo, AOL) Users can create or import profiles (e.g. Twitter), discover other users, and send private messages to each other. Social gadgets, eg for posting comments and links, rating and reviews, that you could add to your site, which your visitor could use once they had logged in with GFC. Website owners can set up questions to be asked when a user used GFC to join their site. The idea was for them to find out their member's intere...