For once, Google looked to be a half-step (or more) behind. Yahoo’s testing a “social” new homepage, Microsoft’s rolling out a “social” Windows Live update, and from the search giant, nada on this front. Except, it seems, for Friend Connect, which just might launch soon.
Facebook Blocking Google’s Friend Connect For Privacy Issues
My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect.
Google Friend Connect – Sharing Social Networking Profiles
First MySpace announced data portability, then Facebook announced Connect, and now Google has Friend Connect. Each is making it easier to share profile information from one social networking site to other web sites (and hoping to be place you go to do that).
Google Previews Friend Connect
There is a trend emerging: online giants making it so users can take their social networks with them anywhere they go on the web, sort of like digital carpooling. Google threw in its offering today, or will tonight anyway, with Google Friend Connect, a wash-n-wear service for incorporating social networking into non-social-networking websites.
Facebook Releases Friend Lists
Facebook’s been challenged by something of an identity crisis as both traditional social networkers and true professionals have tried to use the site. Now, to reduce the odds of a mix-up ("My boss is here? But it’s strip poker night!"), Facebook’s unveiled an organizational tool known as Friend Lists.
Friendster Drops Yahoo, Gets New Best Friend
It’s a timeless story; a friendship that had all the makings of lasting a lifetime is torn to shreds when one of the parties drops the other in favor of a richer, cooler, and more popular pal. Playing the part of the jilted friend in today’s dramatization is Yahoo, who appears to have once again been shafted by Google.
Google Images China Censors – Friend and Foe?
“For Internet users in China, Google remains the only major search engine that does not censor any web pages.”
– The Google Team, 2004
Social Media: PR’s Infectious Friend
The idea that social media can be indoctrinated into a greater marketing and PR campaign is beginning to sink in. When statistics and pinpoint targeting become a greater part of it, rather than the lack-of-control jitters undermining social marketing, expect to see Digg.com and other social networks added to campaigns as standard fare.
Google Earth: An Indian Farmer’s Best Friend
A number of farmers in India were going to have their land taken away. They would have been compensated, but now, thanks to Google Earth, they may get to keep the land, or at least receive more money for it.
3 Steps to Setting Up a ‘Refer a Friend’ Marketing Program
In today’s world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this “refer a friend” marketing program article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discussed.