... service today to allow for a much deeper social experience. Friend Connect is already a massive service, in use on some nine million websites ... simply: better targeting means more clicks. Finally, Friend Connect is launching the “personalized content ... share and discuss the things they care about most.” If you use Friend Connect, or are going to begin to do so, drop a note in the comments ...

... personalized social experience to their visitors, while making it easier for visitors to connect with each other. “Normally we do one feature at a time, but this is a set of features,&# ... for site owners is being able to get more information about their visitors. For example, depending on what Friend Connect widgets you install, you can have a questionnaire that comes up the first time a user ...

... to 15,000. So what gives? Well, Google automatically turned on Friend Connect for all its Blogger sites, so it definitely helps if you have a whole network of ... of HTML into your source code. By contrast, Facebook Connect integrations can range from less than an hour for a share button to ... Post, which is the poster child for a deep Facebook Connect integration. The news service launched a social news ...

... lot of players vying to become your gateway to rest of the web: Facebook Connect, OpenID, Sign In With Twitter, MySpace ID, and Google ... around what boils down to social networking. For example, site owners can use Friend Connect to ask their visitors about their favorite activities and use that data to help connect people with similar tastes. It also gives the site owner a lot of valuable data. ...

... feature is the fact that all the details you divulge will be reflected on your Friend Connect profile. Google says, this is a way for you and other visitors to learn ... users. All the information that  people share on Friend Connect are reusable and exportable to other systems.  All the more reason why people ... Search Engine Journal. Google Makes Friend Connect “Friendlier” with New  ...

... -supported site, as long they’re already signed into Google. Now they will also be able to more easily connect with other users based on similar interests. The heavy lifting for these connections ... that everyone got on board with. Many of these initiatives have competed directly with Facebook. But the Friend Connect updates look to make it even easier for third parties to make their sites ...