Google Friend Connect ?- The Knit City

Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site form 2008 to 2012.similar in practice to face book platform and MyspaceID , it took a decentralized approach , allowing users to build a profile to share and update information via third party sites.

APIs

1. Customizing the appearance of Google friend connect to match their websites styles and designs.
2. advertising and website content tailored to individual user profiles. 
3. querying the content of user profile 

Approximately 200000 websites are said to use google friend connect and 2889 of them are in the top million visited sites on the Internet. Google however estimates it has over 5 million sites using friend connect.

99% of sites were said to not be socially enabled prior to the introduction of friend connect services.

Google friend connect was first previewed at a Google developer event in may 2008 and launched within days of face book platform

when active, the website owner set the language of their site, and then allowed the user to translate selected content into their own specified language.

personalization was intended to be achieved through gadgets. gadgets such as interests. allowed third party sites to send out newsletters to those subscribed to the site and to customize newsletters based on user responses.

Google friend connect had and adsense feature that leg Google advertise based on site content and the user interests that are publicly shared by the user

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