What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
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.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
12 comments:
Great tutorial!
It's a good thing that you can also connect with friends from other social networks, not just Google.
I have some other work to do on my blog, but afterwards I gonna give this tutorial a try.
Thank you for sharing!
Sounds promising and I'll definitely install it on my weblog but I'm going to wait for a while and see what it grows into. My blog is over saturated with promotion gadgets anyway.
i don't think if google will success with this feature. Mybloglog and Blogcatalog has launch several mmonths ago. Google not creative, only following other people idea.
anyway, nice tutorials.
Great post, I like using Google, and this is one I would like to add. I will be changing my template soon and hopefully I can this to work together. Keep up the great work with your blog.
@ everybody greek
Thx for sure you can later try it
@vlad
thx vlad to give your time to read
@ tech news
ya buddy i agree with you but google has all power to give competiion
@ laura
Thx for appreciating
Great post! I use many of Google's tools, and I think this one is worth giving a try. I am going to try it out on my blog and see how I like it. Thanks for the tutorial!
Nice little tutorial post on GFC. I've got a list of Gadgets you can use with it posted up on my site with descriptions. I plan on keeping it up to date with any official or independently developed friend connect gadgets.
This article is really cool, thank you! :))
There is now a GFC Plugin for Wordpress Users you can download directly from the official wordpress plugins directory.
Google Friends Connect is a work in progress. Good Idea and eventually it will be a good thing but I find it very hard to get the two required files to upload to the site. I did get one site to work and when sending invites to people to join the url is not clickable and in order for them to join they would have to cut and paste the url. NOT! so I have not sent invites until that is fixed. On the other issue maybe they don't let you do but one site???? What is suppose to be easy and friendly is a joke. Only gurus will be able to get it to work.
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Nice tutorial and i hope you carry on like this. The main thing about this tutorial is detail explanation, which help us to understand easily. Thanks for the sharing.
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