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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Wondering how to make your site more social? We'd like to make it easier for you, which is why
earlier tonight atCampfire Oneat the Googleplex, we announced a preview release ofGoogle Friend Connect.
Google Friend Connect is a service that helps you grow traffic by enabling you to easily provide
social features for your visitors. Just add a snippet of code, and, voilá, you can add social
functionality—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.
Social features can generate buzz and traffic to your pages. Using Google Friend Connect on your
site, your visitors will be able to see, invite, and interact with their friends from existing
sources of friends, includingFacebook,Google Talk,hi5,LinkedIn,orkut,Plaxo, and others. And you'll be able to more actively
engage your visitors by adding social features from a growing gallery of social applications.
We've heard from many site owners that even though their sites aren't social networks, they'd
still like them to be social. Whether your site sells car parts or dishes out great guacamole
recipes—like the sample site in the YouTube video above—you can visithttps://www.google.com/friendconnect/or read more on theOfficial Google Blogto learn about Google Friend Connect. Right now, the preview is available for only a few sites,
but soon we'll give the green light to even more.Sign up now to be on the wait list.
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