Google Outage May Have Affected Your Gmail Friends List

May 18, 2009 – 11:28 am

To document what Google faces everyday to deliver not just Google Friend Connect, but all the top notch apps to us, here is one reason why Google Friend Connect mutual friends may not be showing in Gmail right now Let me start by saying, Google Friend Connect mutual friends DEFINITELY show up in Gmail because […]

By Chris Lang | Posted in Google Friend Connect, Google Social Network | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

YouTube is Now a Social Bookmarking Site

April 18, 2009 – 11:26 am

YouTube rolls out the first social features of Google Friend Connect on YouTube and YouTube is now a social bookmarking site. Digg eat your heart out. The money maker here is that if you are number one in a YouTube search for a term, you will also be in the top 10 for that same […]

By Chris Lang | Posted in Google Friend Connect, Google Social Network, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Google Friend Connect Questions?

March 12, 2009 – 10:55 am

Ask Chris Lang anything you like about Google Friend Connect and Google Social Networking right here on the GFC Tactics blog UPDATE: Google Friend Connect Is Closing in an announcement from Google on all sites except Blogger, spring, 2012… As I a Google Friend Connect networking authority I get a lot of questions about GFC […]

By Chris Lang | Posted in Blogger, Chris Lang, Google Friend Connect, Google Latitude, Google Reader, Google Search Wiki, Google Social Network, Google Social Networking, Picasa, Social Bar | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (84)

Social Bar – Cures IE GFC Woes and Widget Envy

February 12, 2009 – 8:30 am

Social bar by Google released today seems to cure IE problems, cleans up sidebars and promises a future free of widgets from hell and sidebar traffic jams created by the dreaded widget envy syndrome Anyone that has followed me for long knows I frakin (bsg reference) hate widgets. HATE EM. What a waste of space […]

By Chris Lang | Posted in Google Friend Connect, Google Social Network, Google Social Networking, Social Bar | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (30)

How to Create a Google Profile

December 8, 2008 – 8:52 am

Google profiles are a little hard to find but you can build your Google profile here A Google Friend Connect Group member asked: “Where do the pictures the Google Friend Connect widget uses in the profiles come from?” The photo comes from your Google Profile, you can find yours by going to Google Reader, then […]

By Chris Lang | Posted in Google Social Network | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)