Google Friend Connect
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Type of site
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Social Networking Script |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | |
| Website | google |
| Commercial | Free |
| Registration | OpenID |
| Current status | Suspended |
Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site from 2008 to 2012. Similar in practice to Facebook Platform and MySpaceID, it took a decentralised approach, allowing users to build a profile to share and update information (through messaging, photographs and video content) via third-party sites. These sites acted as a host for profile sharing and social exchanges.
Google Friend Connect used open standards such as OpenID, oAuth and OpenSocial and with the intent of freeing users from having to register for additional accounts or usernames. Once authenticated they could use their existing profile and access a social graph when posting messages.
It has been said that "social network APIs (how different services on the web talk to each other) such as the[MySpace API, Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect take the online social graph beyond social networking sites to external web sites and applications". This social graph feature allowed a user to post a message on a third-party site, but allowed viewing access only to other authorised "friends" contained within the user's chosen social graph.
Friend Connect was removed for all non-Blogger sites by March 1, 2012, and for Blogger sites on January 11, 2016.
The Google Friend Connect APIs provided these features to website owners:
Third-party sites were connected via social-networking sites to contact users when they use the site. By acknowledging user profiles they can attempt to offer content of interest, based on the user's available profile. The third-party sites that interact with social connect services do this by adding HTML/JavaScript gadgets into their pages, allowing them to immediately change or add relevant content (through altering the HTML code). Google Friend Connect requires the approval of the website using it. It requires no knowledge of web programming and enables any website to offer social applications and content from Hi5, Orkut, Plaxo, MySpace, Google Talk, Netlog and other social networks.
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