Filed under: Blogging, Google, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0
It’s been about a month since Google announced its new Friend Connect platform which lets you add social widgets to any blog or web site. If you’ve been waiting patiently to see these widgets begin popping up on the wild, wild web, it looks like the wait is over. Tech blogger Orli Yakuel has added a widget to her blog, Go2Web20.
The widget looks a lot like the recent readers widgets you find from services like MyBlogLog. But Friend Connect offers users the chance to interact with their contacts and communities more deeply without leaving the current web page. For example, Yakuel has added a comment widget that lets FriendConnect users who sign up to be members of her blog to leave comments that are visible to other members.
When you visit a site with a FriendConnect widget you can invite your Google contacts or friends from other sites including MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, or Plaxo to join the community.
Yakuel states there are only a handful of Google gadgets available at the moment, but states there is a section where you can grab gadgets from third party developers, much like the gadget gallery for iGoogle and Google Desktop.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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