I’ve been a huge fan of Google since I was first introduced to the search engine as early as 1998. I just knew that access to information was key to the success of the internet and Google was right there with the most accurate results available.
Since then lots has changed online and new players like Facebook, Myspace and others are all vying to be your one in alll soplution to things online. Google has had the advantage for a long time but things may be shifting. facebook is putting up huge numbers and the number one social network is becoming a force to be recognized in the big eague world of online service providers.
I began to consider opening up my blog to new members by trying out one of the new login services available and chose to integrate both Facebook Connect and Google Friends Connect so that more of my friends can easily access my blog and websites for comments and possibly in the future to offer private or upgraded memberships to exclusive content.
Running this blog on the WordPress platform makes it much easier to work with these new services and I was actually able to get both services to work with the existing installation. I must admit it was much easier to get the Google Friends Connect to work “out of the box” and with a simple WordPress plugin I was up and running with some new commenting from my Google network.
Linking my WordPress blog with Facebook Connect was a bit trickier and I have found some minor issues with logins to the site using this service. I was keen on the Facebook Connect integration because it should allow more fans and friends to share my blog content with other networks with the hopeful benefit of increasing our readership. I think Facebook is better suited for sharing and would be a better service for my website purpose of driving traffic and more users to our site network but it would help if it were a more fluid process. I think some better documentation from plugin writers is needed to explain exactly how to set these things up if more people are going to adopt the Connect service but it will most likely be the more popular as search engines become less important and social networks rise as the new go to source for instant information.
It’s Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect – PC World
Just hours after Yahoo announced a planned implementation of Facebook Connect on its network of sites, Google announced that you can now use your Twitter credentials to register on Google Friend Connect sites. Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are both a means to quickly register for a site or service that requires a login, and it’s likely no coincidence they announced competing deals on the same day. This could end up being a hard fought battle, because there’s one major reason one-stop online identity is becoming important as we enter 2010, and that reason is paywalls.
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