Do you want to be friends?
Google has announced Google Friend Connect a way of incorporating aspects of social networking into any site.
The blurb says that Google Friend Connect allows you to 'add social features to your website....get more people engaging more deeply'.
So, what do you think? Should we add it to the Learning Lab? If you could have a look at the video and look at the Google site, then leave a comment here on whether you think it would be a good thin to add to the Learning Lab. http://www.google.com/friendconnect/home/moreinfo
Labels: community, e-learning, social networking
posted by Chris Hall @ 1:35 pm
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4 Comments:
Chris ... looks very interesting. Probably worth a try: especially given that Oremi maybe going to disappear, this looks like a way of providing similar features around the Learning lab. Links into facebook etc in particular could be very powerful. Presumably it would also work with the WordPress blogging system and allow students and staff to build communities around their personal blogs too.
I read an article the other day suggesting that use of facebook may be declining - or at least not growing so fast - this could certainly be something to watch and, I think, worth putting on the learning lab which could present a good opportunity for us all to see how it works in practice (Clive Richards)
Google Friends Connect seems to have created quite a debate, including this intereseting article from Techcrunch
It looks like Facebook has fallen out with Google over Google's new Friend Connect gadgets claiming that it violates their user's privacy. See for example Jack Schofield's summary on Guardian Technology Blog. Commentators seem to think that this has more to do with Facebook's fear of losing eyeballs for advertising messages. It'll be interesting to watch this to see what develops.
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