Reading through as much of the Google Friend Connect and OpenSocial documentation as I could handle, I’ve made some progress into customizing a few interesting widgets.

The Friend Connect API is a very neat organized structure that parrallels OpenSocial directly. The supported list of social networks in OpenSocial v0.8 is getting longer, allowing for a broader audience reach for any gadget produced.

Take the Friend Connect Reviews and Ratings Gadget for instance. This nice little feature allows you to add ratings to anything you want on your site. Members can post reviews and rate using a neat customizable interface. Here’s a working example:

Facebook has developed their own “Friend Connect” service. Developers can now add a Facebook login and any existing Facebook apps to their site.

Sounds impressive. And it is. I’ve spent considerable time checking out Facebook Friend Connect enabled sites as well as Google Friend Connect sites today. PCWorld put up an interesting article this

So Google, continuing with their quest to make it easier for website publishers to create interaction and community, have released their latest creation:  Google Friend Connect

I’ve installed Google Friend Connect on this wordpress blog, you can see it on the left sidebar.

Google Friend Connect Wordpress installation can be done through the use of code snippets installed in your

(The “Best Wordpress Plugins List” contains plugins for free download and use)

Wordpress is an invaluable tool for the internet marketer. It has become much more than just a “blogging” platform, offering a huge assortment of plugins and templates to make sure your site forms into exactly what you want.

Having considerable experience setting up Wordpress on many different sites, I wanted to create

Automation is one of the keys to making your online career easier.

I like to use a bookmarking service named “Onlywire” for submitting my articles and posts to the services I use.

Onlywire has been out for awhile now, but with the update they’ve introduced a few new things to make bookmarking and sharing your posts / articles so much