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Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Ian Bady — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:15:36 -0000

I'm a newb to Internet Marketing and I subscribe to www.blogsuccess.com. Jack mentioned Chris Lang and Chris Lang mentioned Google Friend Connect so i'm doing it, enough said.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Chris Lang — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:57:30 -0000

Adam, I think I have it figured out, the lack of default Gmail additions. There is no "Yes, I want to share my Gmail address" in your account settings.

Lately I have been getting a flood of Gchat requests. I am starting to theorize that this is the new Google Friend Connect mutual friends request. I mean allot....

Google is huge on testing, so before they release documentation, they will test it to death. Better than what Digg and Facebook has been doing lately, rushing apps to production and then paying the price when they backfire.

So we will be testing this and have some live video on what I believe is the new version of this. Oddly enough it has just started just a Google Wave was released to dev guys.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:08:03 -0000

Chris, first, thanks for coming back and clarifying the current situation. Really value your perspective on GFC.

It would make sense for the Add Friend feature to pull contact info into gmail automatically. It would make my life easier too. Perhaps setting it as an option would help Google combat privacy concerns, but seems that would sort of defeat some of the purpose of GFC (making connecting easier).

If Google Wave is going to be a central spot for our social media, then the Add Friend feature needs to have a purpose and automatically pulling in contact info would be awesome. The main criticism against every new social site is we have to yet again fill in more profile info and re-connect with people. If we could get set up on GFC and also use it as a way to find our friends elsewhere then it has huge potential to take off and streamline everyone's digital social lives.

Thanks again for giving us updates. If anything changes from your perspective, let us know.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Chris Lang — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:14:22 -0000

Something is definitely going on at Google Friend Connect. Today not one avatar from my friends list in Gmail would load and I have not pulled any new contacts from friend requests.

So, to all of you who have pointed out that you are not getting any either, I say thanks so I could look deeper into this.

The features come and go, and there is no documentation that this truly occurs, only my track record on seeing this in the last year.

Of course this is the one thing that I did not screen capture so it figures. I will get some exact data on this soon, but for now all I can say is that is has come and gone many times since May 12th, 2008. We shall see….

Remember that this is only a six month old beta release. If I am wrong in any way and have exact data I will be the first one to let you all know.

I am not afraid of being wrong, I am afraid of seeming to mislead anyone. I would rather be proved wrong on this than send anyone down a road that hurts their business in any way.

Also think about this: Hundreds of new developers from the Google I/O conference are hitting the brand new APIs of Google Wave and the heretofore unused dev servers.

Google will lock down features that we have seen and expect when new code is being brought to release level. I feel they do this so that if there is some big code endless loop error, everyone's privacy is protected.

Think of what would happen if some new code caused an endless loop that made us all GFC mutual friends and all of a sudden everybody got the others Gmail address in their contacts. We are talking at least on million users.

Would anyone ever trust Google again? Plus Google Wave is directly connected to our friends lists and relationships in GFC. This feature could be shut down until a Google Wave first release comes out.

I do let people know that they can send me an email, Gchat request or Google Latitude request and that will definitely make us mutual friends and that has been public and known for the last year. Just obfuscate your email link chrislang a t Gmial * con and so far spammers are not running bots that go that deep into text strings. Besides Google knows spam and knows how to beat it.

Hope this all helps you feel more confident in GFC and the information that is going around. I don't worry about friends lists that highly, but everyone seems concerned so this is an attempt to set any record straight.

BigChief SEOless of the Whitehat clan:

Chris Lang

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Jim Gaudet — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:39:21 -0000

Ah, now I am connected...

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:31:11 -0000

Hmmm, that's odd Coree, I do see it now and saw it when I wrote the post but didn't see it in between. Very odd. Anyhoo, took out the edit from the post. Keep up the good work!

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Coree — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:16:01 -0000

Hey Adam...thanks for the mention! Google Connect is still up on my blog...not sure if there were issues loading or what, but it's there!

Funny, when I added it I had no idea that it would really have an impact but after reading your post and the comments I can see I need to start utilizing and learning more. You always have great info to share. Thank you again!! Let me know if you are still not able to see the GFC widget.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Chris Lang — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:08:09 -0000

Hah! that's funny, Mr. faceless nameless. Why not step into the spotlight and show yourself? You seem to use my name freely, I feel somewhat at a disadvantage.

In the mean time I agree with you. In fact I did a piece about it two weeks ago, because yes, at times this feature does not work. We have all heard this before. Here's why.....

http://www.googlingsocial.c...

Lot's of documentation there, but like I said, none of us work for Google, so all we can do is observe and report.

Truly yours,

Chris Lang

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Jim Gaudet — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:39:09 -0000

You are not AUTO friends, but only one click away from being friends.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Yours Truly — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:28:58 -0000

I would like to point out some errors in the information flying around about GFC.

Chris Lang is making allot of noise about GFC being tied into GMail and this is currently NOT the case.

If you become a friend through Friend Connect they are NOT added to your GMail contacts.

There is more but that's the biggest misconception that's floating around at the moment.

I'm @notinbed on Twitter if you'd like to know more.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Chris Lang — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:55:51 -0000

@Justin, @Adam, wanted to advise a word of caution concerning this statement.......

>> Looking forward to Wave and seeing what it will do to the web…

Don't get to head up about this, I about drove me crazy last year waiting for Google Friend Connect to be released. I have a membership site based totally around GFC and I could not sell a thing while I waited for the release.

Google's development cycle is VERY slow, cautious and professional. Don't expect to see anything before Christmas.

I missed the I/O conference and hence now they won't grant me developer access. I can't even run any of my coding against the API because I don't have a Wave dev account.

So now we all sit back and wait, till Google decides to let us in a few at a time. Best not to let just any Yahoo on their dev servers I aggree.

But how do you miss something like this just because I was too busy with my own business to pay, fly, book lodgings and take an entire week off from my business just to hope it is worth my time and Google releases something in my market?

As the #1 proponent of Google Friend Connect out side of Google I somehow feel a little left out.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:41:22 -0000

Glad you enjoyed it Carol! I'm off to check out your site now.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:40:49 -0000

Wave really does sound like a game changer. Can't wait to try it out. The mass of tools and integration might actually make it a good web OS, which is something we've been hearing about for years now.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Justin Wright — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:36:20 -0000

Thanks for the mention! I just added it after I saw you integrated it. Seems like an awesome feature and so far I am really liking it. Looking forward to Wave and seeing what it will do to the web...

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Carol Aston — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:22:15 -0000

Thanks for this list Adam, great idea, I have added Friend Connect on my blog and I'm going to head over and add myself to some more of the sites in your list. I'm already connected to Chris Lang and Jack Humphrey :-)

Take care,

Carol

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:10:05 -0000

You for sure should Carla. It's going to be integrated into Google Wave, which is going to be huge! Let me know when you've got GFC up and running on your site so I can add you to the list!

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Carla — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:09:13 -0000

I really haven't paid that much attention to Google Friend Connect until now reading this post. I'm thinking of adding it to my blogs now!

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:06:10 -0000

Very cool Randy. Thanks!

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:53:28 -0000

Did get a nice boost, especially from stumbleupon (love that place). Thanks Chris!

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:52:53 -0000

Added Jack! Sorry for the delay. By the way, it looks like your Google toolbar doesn't show up on the homepage for Friday Traffic Report. Is that on purpose? I'm on Mac OS X - Safari 3.2.1. On Firefox 3 it doesn't appear at all...quite odd.

And yes, it does feel nice to be ahead of the "wave" (pun intended).

Great site, btw, just added you to my feed reader.

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Randy Young — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:42:57 -0000

Found you thru Stumbleupon. I know a few of the main bloggers on the internet. Great stuff. I will twit your site for you . sneakerme on Twitter . The visionmaker, builder of small empires.lol

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Chris Lang — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:02:54 -0000

Adam, you should have got some traffic off this, tweeted to our 18K list a few times. MargieDee is my assistant.

Cheers! - Chris Lang

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Chris Lang — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:42:58 -0000

@Jack, imagine running into you here. DeJa Vous?

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

JackHumphrey — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:47:53 -0000

It's nice to be in on something that's going to be big but that has yet to be discovered and understood by the masses, no?

I'm one of the few - add me to the list! :)

Re: Seven Great Bloggers who Google Friend Connect

Adam Pieniazek — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:09:43 -0000

Whoa, very cool Chris. Not sure how I missed the show options button before but that is going to prove to be an amazing resource for finding recent articles. Wonder if they'll begin integrating real time results into their main search page, perhaps in a sidebar?

I know they already show recent blog posts about select topics at the bottom.