How to Connect Friend ñ Google Gets Social

Friend Connect ñ Google Gets Social

Google Friend Connect is a free online service/OpenSocial application

offered by Google that allows Web site owners to add social features to

their sites and, in turn, allows their site's visitors to connect with friends

and make new ones across various Web sites.

With Google Friend Connect, a Web site owner can let his site's visitors

ìjoinî his/her site. In turn, visitors are given the option to sign in using

their existing Goggle, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID accounts.

Google offers the Friend Connect service through various gadgets.

Currently, Friend Connect has 16 gadgets and new ones are being created

constantly by Goggle and the Open Social developer community.

Using Google Friend Connect and its gadgets requires no programming.

Just choose from Google Friend Connect's gallery the gadgets you want to

add to your Web site, copy a few snippets of codes, paste them on your

Web site's HTML, and Friend Connect does the rest.

Google Friend Connect provides social functionality to a site or blog

turning a static webpage into a dynamic, interactive online piece of real

estate. This lets us marketers add social media to our site and give incentive to visitors to get engaged, to stay longer on our site, check out

our promotion and listen to what we got to say.


Join Google Friend Connect (using a Google account/email address)

Go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

Click Sign in.

Enter your Email address.

Enter your Password.

Click Sign in.

Click button to agree to the Friend Connect Developer Terms of Service.

Join Google Friend Connect (using a non-Google email address)

Go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

Click Get started.

Click Create an account now.

Enter your non-Google email address.


Enter your Password.

Re-enter your Password.

Select your Location.

Enter the characters displayed under Word Verification.

Click I accept. Create my account.

Click on the verification link provided in the verification email.

Logging in to Google Friend Connect (with a non-Google email account)

Go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect

Click Sign in.

In the Google Account box:

- Enter your non-Google email address

- Enter your password.

- Click Sign in.

Click Google Friend Connect under My Products.

Click Get started.

Logging in to Google Friend Connect (with a Google email account)