EE: You could screw it up just like you would screw up any friendship: by being a bad friend. You're trying to make the web a better place and you're hoping to connect with other webmaster who want to do the same.
A top tip: Deferral is your friend – a front-end optimization technique that delays the execution of non-critical scripts until the rest of the page has loaded and rendered on the browser. Here we use social and local tactics to get customers to...
It quickly turns from a robust profile into a social media aggregator of sorts and the more you connect with it, the more info you get in return. What about seeing the latest status update from your friend at Facebook?
Essentially your social circle is dictated by the Google products you use and any web apps that you use that use Google Profiles authentication (similar to Facebook Connect or Login with Twitter). Whether this is a total count from my friend-circle...
Don't Friend, Follow, or Otherwise Connect With Strangers It's a good rule of thumb to only connect and share with people you know in real life. Even facts that may seem mundane to you at first glance can be valuable to scammers, who are able to...
Google Friend Connect Launches Recommendation Widget Posted by Nathania Johnson May 21, 2009 One of the foundations of the social web is viral content, which is, at its core, based on recommendations.
Google Friend Connect's Social Bar enables social networking with a horizontal "bar" of social networking that web developers can place on their site. Lately, we've seen the emergence of toolbar-esque social media features that enable sharing and...
Google Friend Connect Launches API Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 19, 2009 Google Friend Connect, the tool that allows web developers to add social networking to any site, has launched an API. Here's what site owners and developers can expect: Site...
Their Open Social involvement and launch of Friend Connect show they have commitment. Friend Connect is no less of a bomb than Google Co-Op seems to have been, but the possibly more useful combination of some Co-Op factors with Twitter could make...
The user pays $1 for these "gifts" and sends them to their friend. If Facebook can cobble the good technology they already have (Connect, Beacon, etc.then they could literally steal billions of dollars in revenue from Google.
In May, Google announced a new initiative called Friend Connect that enables site owners to add social media to their websites, and allows internet users to connect their social accounts more seamlessly.
According to the press release any site which deploys Google Friend Connect widgets 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...
Visitors to sites using 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.
SEW real estate guru Avi Wilensky sat down with Craig Newmark at the Real Estate Connect NYC 2008 conference in NYC and learned a bit more about Craigslist, social media, and Newmark's views on SEO. I've had close to 1,000 people who have opted to...
