Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect
Type of site
Social Networking Script
Available inMultilingual
OwnerGoogle
URLwww.google.com/friendconnect
CommercialFree
RegistrationOpenID
Current statusSuspended

Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site, active from 2008 to 2012.[1] Similar to Facebook Platform and MySpaceID, it allowed users to build a profile to share and update information through messaging, photographs and video content via third-party sites which acted as a host for profile sharing and social exchanges.[2]

Google Friend Connect used open standards such as OpenID, OAuth and OpenSocial allowing usage with no registration, once authenticated they could use their existing profile and access a social graph when posting messages, the social graph feature allowed a user to post a message on a third-party site, but allowed viewing access only to other authorized "friends" contained within the user's chosen social graph.

Google Friend Connect was removed for all non-Blogger sites by March 1, 2012,[3] and for Blogger sites on January 11, 2016.[4]

  1. ^ Schonfeld, E. (2008) Google Confirms Friend Connect. Available: https://techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/google-confirms-friend-connect/ Archived 2017-06-14 at the Wayback Machine Last accessed: 20/04/2011
  2. ^ Ko, Moo Nam; Cheek, Gorrell P.; Shehab, Mohamed; Sandhu, Ravi (2010). "Social-Networks Connect Services". Computer. 43 (8): 37. doi:10.1109/MC.2010.239. S2CID 9668277.
  3. ^ Urs Hölzle (2011-11-22). "More spring cleaning out of season". Google. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
  4. ^ Michael Goddard (2015-12-21). "An update on Google Friend Connect". Google. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-16.