Comments on: Google Friend Connect is Ramping Up

By: Pelin

Pelin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:24:44 +0000

I added this application to my Wordpress Blog yesterday. It has questions and answers feature since last week and I am looking forward to see my community engagement

By: Joey Logano Fan

Joey Logano Fan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:32:49 +0000

@Brenda I am sure that Google Friend connect works for wordpress

After all Charle’s blog is running wordpress, and as you can see, Google Friend connect is working just fine

By: Brenda Bunney

Brenda Bunney — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:48:35 +0000

This is a cool application. Always nice to add cool things to the website, but I use wordpress.com and I am thinking this will not work for me. Is that correct?

Do I have to host elsewhere?

By: Rob Sellen

Rob Sellen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:28:13 +0000

Charles, all,

I finally got mine added, I had to moved hosting so due to having to upload them two files to the host had to wait.

On there now, but does anyone have any views on that?

Is that missing out on all them thousands of blogspot users? Or do you think it was done to stop it being abused in some way using blogspot blogs?

Considering they all have a google account to use blogspot etc.

I can see this will be a good addition already.
Will blog about it I think.

Rob

By: Jerry Chen

Jerry Chen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:09:16 +0000

Hey Charles and friends. I created a step-by-step video for adding Friend Connect to Wordpress blogs for those that are interested.

http://knowledgeip.com/training/video-how-to-add-google-friend-connect-to-a-wordpress-blog-website-step-by-step/

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:44:08 +0000

I got an acceptance/invitation email from Google after I filled the form out. I followed the instructions and added the widget to two of my blogs so far.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:51:26 +0000

Hi everyone,

Yep I got my invite 24 hours later and now have it installed on my blog and my directory, very cool, I have used the comment gadget as well and also the review widget, both on my blog.

Interested to see how this works out.

Sue

By: Charles Heflin

Charles Heflin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:28:49 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments. It has helped us to determine whether or not Google is throttling this thing up…. Apparently they are.

I am not sure what the Google docs thing is … this is confusing to me and everyone else. Perhaps it is a glitch in their BETA release.

In any case it appears that Google is approving people for BETA shortly after the request. So if you want to get in on Friend Connect just fill out the request and wait for the invite… Apparently invites are coming in within 24 hours vut knowing Google this will probably change.

Thanks to everyone that has joined this blog through Friend Connect, now we can start playing with this new toy an see what its all about.

All the best,

Charles

By: Dale Calder

Dale Calder — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:23:52 +0000

Hey many thanks Charles. I had the invite send to me within the day .. and now have the widget installed. I am looking forward to seeing just how powerful this may become.

Abi .. yes .. you should receive word from Google in the next day or two all going well ..

By: Salihu

Salihu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:55:03 +0000

You are okay Charles. just like you directed. i have my own Google friend connect up on my Joomla website within minutes.
Was wondering how you got to know about this Google service. Heard of it on this blog for the first time.
Thanks.

By: Rob Sellen

Rob Sellen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:06:30 +0000

I had the same thing too Abi.

Not sure what it was, maybe it was Charles’s google doc?

Getting feedback like that will be good in any case.
Sure if it was Charles who created that doc, we will soon know about it

Rob

By: Abi Carmen

Abi Carmen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:41:48 +0000

Same thing happened to me as to Anna,

“Sign up for the preview release
This is a preview release with limited availability”

So I clicked that. I had to enter my name, URL of my site (I had to choose one), visits and page views per day. Then I had to give a detailed description of what I wanted to use Friend Connect for. I could also give additional info if I wanted.

I filled in my main niche site.

Then I got a page that said

“Thanks!

Your response will now appear in my spreadsheet.
Create your own form” which was followed by the logo for Google Docs.

Do you get a acceptance from Google and then proceed?

By: Rob Sellen

Rob Sellen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:55:35 +0000

Thanks Richard,

Good to know, it would be a shame for them all to be the same size and look in a way.

Thanks for taking time to answer that for me, much appreciated.

Rob

By: Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:50:30 +0000

Glad I found this widget. Killer application. Thanks for keeping a good eye out.

Respectfully submitted,
Scotty

By: delords

delords — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:05:38 +0000

Great News Charles,

Am about joining to start connecting.