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Google Friend Connect - part 2: The largest Social Network ever built

Started by Philippe Bradley · 1 year ago

Having originally assumed that the reason Facebook, Hi5 and LinkedIn (FHL), amongst others, were involved in the Google Friend Connect (GFC) service, I initially wanted to write this post to argue that this was the biggest strategic mistake of their lives. Turns out, Google is inv ... Continue reading »

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Philippe Bradley
1 year ago

And for bonus stretches of your lateral thinking muscles, imagine:
- Google integrates Google Checkout with the scenario I describe above
- Google integrates social search - sites your friends (on any social network you integrate into GFC) visited when searching for similar queries rank higher, and alternative phrasings for your query are recommended based on what they typed in

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Philippe Bradley
1 year ago

I called it! i called it big time: Facebook blocks Google Friend Connect

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/15/the-social...

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Dewey
1 year ago

have you looked at Minggl?? http://tinyurl.com/5z2nea

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stevenmartinez
5 months ago

Once again, thanks for the quality articles you post on your blog!! I admire your articles and informative information you share. Keep up the good work

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gochi
5 months ago

Google team making the whole world in their hand only, they don't allowing anybody to compete them but i like all Google service they are 100% service providers.

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