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Google Friend Connect API (Deprecated)

Getting Started

  1. Read the OpenSocial and Google Friend Connect for more information and references to the appropriate docs and samples.
  2. Check out sample apps.

Warning: Google Friend Connect was officially deprecated in November 2011; it will be retired for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012. For more information, please see the announcement.

Google Friend Connect lets site owners instantly awaken and strengthen the community that visits their web site. Friend Connect:

  • Makes it easy for every site owner to add Friend Connect to their site regardless of their technical capabilities.
  • Uses open standards to let visitors control their own data and freely share it with sites and services as they see fit. Services include OpenID providers like Yahoo, social network providers like Twitter, and update aggregators like Plaxo Pulse.

Friend Connect APIs enable developers to:

  • Integrate social flows and data directly within a page's markup, via the OpenSocial standard specification.
  • Integrate existing login systems, registered users, and existing data with new social data and activities.
  • Create social gadgets & services that are embeddable within millions of Friend Connect enabled sites.