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Playing with Google FriendConnect
 I was talking to ‘the Great Balwani’, (seriously, he's great) today and he mentioned playing around with Google FriendConnect. Not to be one shy of playing with the latest toys I promptly set up the community widget (below the My Blog Log widget – lower right) and another widget to comment and rate posts…
The first one seems pretty much like the MBL one, we’ll see how it plays out (doesn’t show recent visitors to..). The other, well that seems like it will further dilute the conversation as this is a blog and we already have comments going…
So what? We can now ‘rate’ the posts? Yeah, that’s about it… I hope to see other widgets soon as the selection now is kinda lacking.
On the admin side, you can manage members (and friends) as well as moderating posts (which is a good idea methinks)....
Anyway, feel free to join up and rate some posts… we shall see where it leads.
PS; drop by Search Engine People and join up as well… the more of us playing, the sooner we find it’s value…
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However my guess is that Google isn't looking to provide a second option to MBL or to comment systems. I'm willing to bet they are banking on the possibility of people using these widgets as opposed to other built in options with things like Wordpress and such.
Either way, I'm having the Friend and Rating / Review widgets added to my blogging mothers community for a few months to see if it catches on.
I too hope for more widgets to come in the near future that will make Friend Connect that much more appealing to me.
@John, I am with you as far as looking for more widgets, the offering is def limited at this point.. but I shall give it a while...
I am sure the friend connect API can be used in more interesting ways.
One thing positive, if you become a member of a blog using friend connect (at least on blogger), then you also become a subscriber in Google Reader with special filtering.
Regards,
Dilip
Regards,
Dilip
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