Google joins the Social Network boom by introducing it’s latest work, Google Friend Connect. The basic idea behind the new service is to socialize any website looking to be socialized.
Google Friend Connect provides a platform for website owners to interact with their users through current social networks like Facebook, GTalk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo and the many other social networks available today.
OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, Yahoo, Myspace, Google, Facebook data access APIs and many others. There are so many social standards today and Google’s target to to simplify access to them through Google Friend Connect.
So what’s in it for you?
- Chances are your social network friends will be driving new traffic your way.
- Connect to more people. Something like what MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog do.
- Low learning curve. You get features in the past companies were willing to pay millions for free and best of you don’t need to be super computer savvy to enjoy the features.
The service is currently in preview release. If you are interested in taking Google Friend Connect for a spin, sign up for a preview here.
Source: Google
Hi, writer’s block is something very common amongst busy bloggers nowadays. Most often this is the case with part time bloggers who have to juggle between their full time jobs and their love for blogging . I’ve been stuck with work lately and it’s draining all my creative juices. Ideas don’t seem to flow in easily anymore.
I need your help, there’s a new tool in town. Skribit, I’ve added the widget. Skribit’s basically a Web 2.0 suggestion engine for blogs. Readers get to submit ideas for posts they would want to read and I the blog owner get’s to overcome my writer’s block syndrome.
Give it a spin. Remember to do drop me an idea or 2 on topics you would like me to post about.
After bout 5 months of invite only beta testings hulu has opened it’s doors to the public earlier this month.
hulu is an online video streaming service but unlike youtube and other video services hulu will only be publishing premium content from prime time TV like full episodes of popular tv shows, fulllength movies and premiums clips.
The current lineup already includes Family Guy, 30 Rock, The Office, House, The Simpsons, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Friday Night Lights, TV classics, from Arrested Development and Firefly to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Roswell and many more. The movie lineup includes full-length movies from The Usual Suspects, Ice Age, and Point Break to Some Like It Hot, In Her Shoes, and Me, Myself and Irene, as well as hundred of clips from classic movies such as Aliens, Die Hard, Little Miss Sunshine, Napoleon. The list keeps growing so choices will eventually be infinite. Continue Reading ->
It’s been over 24 hours since I activated my Arkayne Related Posts plugin but no related posts have even shown up so far. I expected 30 mins as stated by Arkayned eventually 24 hours later and nothing is happening.
Arkayne parses and links your blog in 30 min flat.
I sent 4 mails asking for support but never heard back from Arkayne.
Apparently the Arkayne Related plugin is not working as advertised. The only thing left to do now is to drop the plugin. Till then I’m back to Simple Tags’s related posts feature.
I love the concept behind Arkayne and hope they get it running soon.
I’m trying out a new related posts plugin called “Arkayne” for a few weeks on my blog.
I’ve been looking around for related posts plugins and been testing a few recently but most of them either only use tags or categories to find related posts. So far my favorite has been Related Entrie by WASABI because it uses keywords instead.
What is Arkayne?
Arkayne is an online service that collects and automatically links similar content from the Arkayne network. The Arkayne network is made up of sites/blogs which are connected via the Arkayne plugins or java scripts. Their posts get registered by Arakyne and the magic happens. The Arkayne engine consists of a set of rules and algorithm the relates pages based on content and not just tags, keywords or categories. If Arkayne functions as advertised, someone surfing a PHP related site should only see posts related to the PHP world.
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