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Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

deee — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:42:21 -0000

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deee — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:41:24 -0000

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Wouter Olwagen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:20:06 -0000

Installing Facebook Connect on my site was an absolute breeze.

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SEO Tips South Africa — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:18:00 -0000

The rapidly evolving social aspect of the internet is of great interest to me, thank you for the post. It is rather funny how snooty facebook is, trying to set themselves apart from everybody else. They do have an awesome audience though, so it definitely is worth it for one to pursue that route.

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AdamHermsdorfer — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:35:15 -0000

Really interested in both applications. Friend connect the samples looks like a really cool platform and I like the Facebook applications policy on the no follow atribute. They are removing the nofollow attribute from link because they are assumed to be from a trusted source.

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

Ashwin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:15:57 -0000

It is good that such social networks are moving towards the blogosphere. But, as you rightly said in the last part of your post, they sometimes tend to distract readers and take them away from your blog. So I somehow find Blog and Social Networks are better when alone and not together.

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

Brian Kissel — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:00:39 -0000

If you'd like to just benefit from allowing new visitors to register and login using an existing account from AOL, Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo or any OpenID account, check out RPX (http://rpxnow.com). You can see it in action at http://www.interscope.com or http://www.uservoice.com and a summary of the data you'll be able to get from the various providers at http://blog.janrain.com/200...

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

Steve Gasser — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:43:45 -0000

Your posts seem to be one step ahead of when I need to know something. This will come in handy for a client meeting tomorrow.

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UPrinting Online Printing — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:57:32 -0000

Interesting and helpful post, keep em coming, thanks =-)

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

ducttape — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:36:58 -0000

@Don - yes, you should see the video I found on how to add FC from some FB engineers. It was well done, but man it would have scared the heck out of most folks.

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

Don Campbell — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:34:29 -0000

Great post John, and thanks for including a link to my video.

I think it is interesting that so many people talk about how difficult it is to set up Facebook Connect compared to Google's Friend Connect. You'd think Facebook would simplify the process.

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Franklin Bishop — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:48:57 -0000

I think all this social stuff is too much. I will stick with Twitter.

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AccuConference — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:31:56 -0000

I agree with Lisa. I've tried to pick and choose the social media that my company is involved with purely because if there are a lot of people screaming everywhere, how will anyone be heard? I think it comes down to knowing your business and knowing your brand. Not everything is going to work, be a good fit, or even catch on the way some things (like Twitter) have.

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

ducttape — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:20 -0000

@Lisa - as you can see I have not implemented either at the moment as I share some your same concerns. To misquote the Cluetrain Manefesto - While markets are conversations, you may not need to join every conversaton.

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

Clyde Boom — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:44:49 -0000

Thanks for the great tip and all the steps and resources to do it.

I'll try it!

Clyde Boom

Re: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

Lisa Solomon — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:37:25 -0000

After putting our company's name on the waiting list for Friend Connect months ago, we recently received notice that we can install Google Friend Connect on our website at http://TheBillableHour.com. However, we've held off.

We're concerned about social networking overload. Really, does every website have to be the hub of its own social network?

We're also concerned about the possibility of suffering from negative social proof (or, as I like to call it, the "I gave a party and nobody came" syndrome). If your site has only a handful of "members," that can be a disincentive for new site visitors.