{"id":462,"date":"2008-12-04T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=462"},"modified":"2008-12-04T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:50:14","slug":"trying-out-google-friend-connect-on-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/trying-out-google-friend-connect-on-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying out Google Friend Connect on my Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look to your right and down a little ways you&#8217;ll see a new widget on my blog &#8211; Google Friend Connect. If you&#8217;re a friend or regular reader feel free to click on the little &#8220;Join this site&#8221; button to connect to me.<\/p>\n<p>So far it seems pretty similar to MyBlogLog and other services &#8211; if I get some time between baby feedings I&#8217;ll try to write up a comparison.\u00a0 The most glaring advantage for Google Friend Connect is the huge, built-in userbase of GMail users, Picasa users, etc.\u00a0 You can also sign in with a Yahoo ID or an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/use-openid-in-your-wordpress-blog-for-comments-and-your-identity\/\">OpenID, which is very cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/google-friend-connect-now-available.html\">Read more on the Google Blog<\/a>.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/friendconnect\/\">add it to your site as well<\/a>, it only took a minute or two.<\/p>\n<p>Why add Friend Connect?\u00a0 It lets you make your homepage a bit more like a social networking site.\u00a0 Right now its a bit limited, but I think eventually we&#8217;ll all be able to own our Facebook-style identities outside of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/the-ethics-of-web-apps-or-ever-try-to-get-a-list-of-your-contacts-from-facebook\/\">walled gardens like, well, Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look to your right and down a little ways you&#8217;ll see a new widget on my blog &#8211; Google Friend Connect. If you&#8217;re a friend or regular reader feel free to click on the little &#8220;Join this site&#8221; button to connect to me. So far it seems pretty similar to MyBlogLog and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[247,80,571,572,482,195,573],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-google-friend-connect","tag-mybloglog","tag-openid","tag-social-networking","tag-widgets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}