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I just got this link a few minutes ago thru a StumbleUpon shout and I thought we could demonstrate the power of Google Friend Connect and shout this site to all our GFC friends. Let’s bring the power of our networks together to do some good. Seems like a great cause.
Join the GFC gadget on Natural Papa (new tab) and share it with your own network by clicking the “invite friends” on the GFC gadget after you join. Then Tweet it thru the GFC gadget to your Tweeps network there.
The site is also already submitted to social bookmarking so you can also click thru to the bookmarking sites using the GFC gadget.
Let’s see how many GFC members we can bring this site and how many donations we can bring in for the charities the site supports.
Pass it on! - Chris Lang
Let me start by saying, Google Friend Connect mutual friends DEFINITELY show up in Gmail because I have over 400 myself. I have built this list over the last nine months and I was the one that discovered this in September, 2008.
When Google was getting to release the Google Latitude platform, the whole month before no one was getting GFC mutual friends in their Gmail contacts list. I documented this in Google Bugs Gone Latitude in February 2009.
Then when Google did unveil and full release of Google Latitude, suddenly there was a flood of new contacts in my Gmail address book.
I have been testing and analyzing this for NINE months, I know it works. So just because you added 30 or 40 friends thru a Google Friend Connect gadget in the last month, now you can say I am wrong about this?
I have built a very responsive Google Friend Connect list over nine months, using GFC. So just because you tried it for a few weeks and it did not work, I am totally wrong? That is why I am an analyst and you are a blogger. You don’t have time to watch this day in and day out.
This is how I make my living, by having the long term results of what I teach. Not the off the top of their heads, jumping to conclusions, first time user of GFC inaccurate opinion on this.
When I tell you something it is because we know it works. We can’t control what services Google delivers, but we can tell when something is fact, to the best of my knowledge, a theory and just a very educated guess.
I label everything I publish here with those exact limitations. So, when I say “Google Friend Connect mutual friends are added to Gmail and Google Reader” then it is a fact or I would be a liar, disseminating worthless information that is going to waste your time.
How do you know that the people you friend use Gmail? You don’t, but yet because your mutual friend does not show up in Gmail you immediately say I don’t know what I am talking about.
Then you go and use two of your own Gmail accounts to friend yourself and you say that proves I am wrong. Come on, this is the worst test in the world. You can’t know what is going on behind the scenes at Google and neither can I. But at least I have been testing it for nine months.
There was even a Google outage and Google is moving the the new way a network is built and this has cause many Google apps not to function properly.
Just like when Latitude was released and I suddenly saw a flood of new mutual friends added to Gmail and Google Reader, I expect the same to happen after Google move this new IP protocol.
IPv6 is needed because the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressed devices on the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and can support so many devices that only a mathematical expression — 2 to the 128th power — can quantify its size.
Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company’s applications to support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.
“We can provide all Google services over IPv6,” said Google network engineer Lorenzo Colitti during a panel discussion held here Tuesday at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
IPv6 is explained here for those that want to totally understand the tech side of this as I do.
Give it some time, don’t jump to conclusions and take the advice of those who know what is really going on, like Jack Humphrey who knows the whole story because he got it from what he calls the number one Google Friend Connect expert.
I myself am going to swing on by Jack Humphrey’s Friday Traffic Report blog and listen to what he claims is an interview with the absolute number one authority on Google Friend Connect.
This guy better have something to say or I may have to chime right in. Come and see what happens when Jack Humphrey teams up with a Google Friend Connect Analyst and takes all your questions on his blog.
Did you see you can get Google profile business cards free? The first 10,000 get a set free, just look on your Google profile, if the offer still exists you will see link and you have to be logged in.
You can see it on my Chris Lang profile here and if you are logged into the account you use for Google Friend Connect it will show the link at the top. Just click the “my profile” link in the top right of my profile and that will take you to your profile and the offer is still good as of 5:37 AM Arizona US time.
Here’s what mine looked like, click it for the large view.
Really free too, shipping and all and this is not a late April Fools day joke either.
Hope you make it in time.
Google Friend Connect files are not easily downloaded due to the way Firefox drops them into your downloads folder. Here is a video, step by step How To Download / FTP Google Friend Connect Files that should solve this issue once and for all.
I hope this solves you problems / questions about GFC files and downloads quickly and easily.
Jack, this is intended for you since it was you that gave me my start in social marketing here on SMC.
I am tired of keeping my mouth shut and watching people who know nothing about Google Friend Connect pretend they do. Real tired of it. Jack you are one of the few that is not pretending to be an authority on GFC.
I generated over 10,000 30,000 views on my Google Friend Connect YouTube channel in less than three weeks. Using nothing but my social skills in bookmarking and Google Friend Connect. TEN THIRTY THOUSAND VIEWS. From Google Friend Connect!!!
I am the only one that knows what to do with it so to heck with Google Friend Connect, here is what I have been holding back. I saw all this on December 15th 2009.
Here is enough for any guru to reverse engineer what I have known for months. Since September when I told you all here that the followers widget was really Google friend connect. Look it up right here, it is dated on SMC.
So Google is not a social network. NOT never will be ain’t going to happen.
UPDATE: Cnet calls Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X.
Google is going to make their 50 properties / apps / sites like YouTube even more popular than they are now by getting us all to use the social features of Google Friend Connect for marketing then one day we wake up and we realize that we don’t need Windows any more.
I boot my machine with W2K and that is it. No embedded software. My five year old machine out screams any Windows piece of junk there is. 1GB of ram and a five year old dual core chip.
I run my entire business with Google sites. It is FREE and it is slick when you learn how I do it.
When Unbuntu comes out in full release Microsoft is done. April 23rd.
Jack, I have made allot of predictions here, I have always been right. This is my last and final one because there is no more after this.
Newspapers will be through by 2010.
You don’t have to go to Facebook anymore. Your BLOG is now YOUR social site.
Every Google property (50 in all) is Google Friend Connect enabled and the new social marketing features on YouTube? THAT IS Google Friend Connect!!! It is there now, you just have to know how to use it.
Jack, I got my start right here on SMC, I am a success now because you helped me get going here. I am the only person besides you to sell a product right here on SMC.
So this is it, I can’t wait and hope no one else gets this before I can dominate the GFC how to info product market.
Google is going to completely take over computing, I use almost nothing but Google utilities.
I boot Gmail as an outboard drive and store my files there. My machine never runs more than 256K of Ram and never taxes the processor. I can open 50 to 300 tabs in Firefox. That is how I can Digg so fast and make so many friends. This has been my secret all this time.
There are less than 15 processes running on my entire machine. I boot 3 start up items. THREE.
So let me ask you Jack:
If Google is going to dominate the OS thru the browser would you not want to be one of the dominating users of the social features in the next OS that is FREE and going to shape computing for the next 50 years?
That is it, it is like a weight off my chest. Everybody can rip it off, steal my ideas and what I have spent the last year figuring out and I will never get rich off this.
Or I have what it takes to hold off pretenders like Simon Ford and sell this product. Googling Social.
I love a good dog fight in the commercial market place. Bring it on, do or die, here I go. Let’s see if I have what it takes.
One last thing Jack, I am in full launch and I have an affiliate program that pays 50%.
Chris Lang
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Two cool things form Google today, just worked all night to get these to you bright and early.
Click thru to the YouTube video, log in with your YouTube id. If you do not have a channel right now get one set up just so you can begin adding friends there. Google Friend Connect is in full release not on YouTube. Get going before you get left behind now.
When a video is running you can click it and get to the YouTube page.
I have worked all night to get these two videos to you this morning. Please click thru to that YouTube video and learn how to get your custom Google Profile URL. Most of you have Gmail addresses, log into YouTube using that Google account, and create a YouTube account if you don’t already have one.
Then if you liked all this breaking news I brought you, rate my videos, comment on what you saw and favorite the video so you can find it again easily.
Google Friend Connect is in full release ON YouTube NOW! Get your YouTube account set up and get started. This is the first roll out of Google Friend Connect on a Google site. Learn how to use YouTube even if you don’t have a video camera.
This is going to be real handy when you later want to get started there since you will have made lots of new friends using GFC on YouTube.
If you prefer you can click thru to the Google Friend Connect Events Gadget video here.
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When you learn how to comment properly, add value to the parent blog post and help people rather than spamming blogs to get links or a few measly visitors the return value in phenomenal.
What this video and learn how to do it right and even I can’t believe the return on this one.