Comments on: Twitter: Google Friend Connect’s social hub for the web?

By: edhardy622

edhardy622 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:45:03 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:06:54 +0000

You may want to check out Yonky. It's the first "create your own" microblog to integrate with twitter.

http://yonkly.com

By: alex harris - alexdesigns

alex harris - alexdesigns — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:05:09 +0000

I added Google Friend Connect to my site and I see the opportunity with Facebook too, but until a non techy coder can understand the advantages on spending time with this it will never take off. Is google just trying to collect more data of personas to server ads or is this the next step for BLOGGER? Or is Facebook trying to get more people to come back to their site. I wonder what the monetary benefits will be?

By: wiliam

wiliam — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:07:09 +0000

Hail to the Thieves

Facebook Connect, Google Open Social, and twitter the closed source content trap are all a slap in the face to the Open Principals of the internet.

Any developer and proponent of a truly Open web must take an active roll in pushing for the success of Laconica and OpenID and should not help to extend any closed source application.

Today we have no less than 3 closed source companies in a race to become the "Standard" for holding our Identity and therefore having access to the content that we read and creates. These companies will leverage our content to create revenue; giving nothing back to the content owners or to the community.

Why do developers especially Open Source developers continue to build and extend applications for closed source companies that under mind open source standards and ideals ?

Why do users continue to view giving control of their identity and content to these companies as a win, when in fact the win is clearly on the side of the company that you have allowed to take control of your identity and to generate value and revenue from your content. In return for our compliance we do not even have a right to take our identity and our content where we want.

Open Source developers, please do not write any code to extend the propitiatory services of closed source applications . They are not your "Friend" When you write code for these companies you undermine the integrity of the Open Web.

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:00:47 +0000

As Justin says it's a lot easier to implement. It took me longer time to make sure the widget fit into the rest of my design, than it took to install it.

I'm really looking forward to learning more about Google's plans with this service.

Regarding twitter you are head on. It's amazing how much you can learn from 140 characters.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:44:49 +0000

Well, integration is way easier for developers. The issue is more the user interface once it's implemented.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:44:33 +0000

I more or less agree. The main problem I see right now, though, is that it takes so many clicks to actually use Twitter on Friend Connect.

By: Justin Davey

Justin Davey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:31:08 +0000

This is an excellent addition on Google's part. Not only is Friend Connect WAY easier to implement into a blog or website than Facebook Connect, it's already starting to look a lot more open as well. Move quickly Facebook or you're going to lose out.

By: mager

mager — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:28:50 +0000

I think Facebook Connect will unify the web's community. Google doesn't really have a social network for users to go back and connect to. We use Facebook, not Orkut.