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Today with 3 partner sites, Time.com, HuffingtonPost and JS-Kit, we gave a talk at Google I/O about how and why they implemented Google Friend Connect on their site. The session showed that Friend Connect starts to get real traction with large sites, and that implementing a deep integration using the Friend Connect Javascript or REST […]

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In the past 3 weeks, since we have released the Google Friend Connect Javascript API, I have been playing Friend Connect it a bit more: the Javascript APIs let you add social features to your site without requiring the use of gadgets. Ask the user to join the site, then you have access to the […]

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I just added a third friend connect gadget to this site, the new demo application. It demonstrates some interesting aspects of Friend Connect: canvas mode the fact that owner’s friends are the site members in Friend Connect: opensocial.DataRequest.newFetchPersonRequest( new opensocial.IdSpec({‘userId’ : ‘OWNER’, ‘groupId’ : ‘FRIENDS’})); I own that site, and when logged in as the […]

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Yesterday we had a great session at Google I/O where 12 OpenSocial containers presented their offering and answered questions: OpenSocial is really picking up steam, with 4 of them live, representing 275 million users, many sandbox environments and many planning to ship soon. Our secret guest was Eric Staats from AOL, who announced that AOL […]

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I was in a good panel this week at the Digital Leadership Summit on Social Media: Dave McClure played the role of Facebook’s Dave Morin, Jason Shellen moderated the panel and asked me questions about future Google products as if he did not follow the same Google Speaker training as myself a few years ago […]

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