Google Friend Connect

[tmsdev]

Google Friend Connect API is supposed to help people to quickly set up dynamic social websites without digging too deep into Drupal etc. Kind of like that js-kit widgets but I would say a bit more comprehensive.

On the plus side is that you get the whole Open Social thing for free and whatever apps you may be interested in. The downside is that you have to send people off from the Google Friend Connect sites to Google for signup, and similar smaller things in the UI and user experience make it still somewhat clunky. For example, they have PhpBB, Wordpress and Drupal integration - perfect! - but having to prepend every FC username with "fc_" is already kind of weird, and not having 100% of control over user profiles, their look and feel, etc.... in other words, if you are looking for more flexibility, you will probably need a real CMS instead of this. Otherwise, Google Friend Connect API a pretty decent quick way to get a social site started.

[MrSpockSD]

Hi, folks. My name is Frank (or MrSpock, because of my ears and my dream). I have started programming in 1984 and I work as a software developer now. I am both an old-school programmer (started with Pascal) and a new one (a child of the Internet era HTML, PHP) at the same time. I have basically lost a decade in the programming world. Losing the nineties is not as bad as it seems; I skipped the Windows era ;-)

My dream in life is to develop affordable space travel and space tourism. As a result I also love collecting space related photos. One of own personal problems is that I tend to become an expert of a subject very quickly, so I have to keep changing subject often in order to stay sufficiently ignorant :-) This is why I am interested in many topics and many languages. Fortunately space travel has so far proven to be so complex that it will keep my attention for a long time :-)

I'm usually more of just a lurker on the net but I'll chime in when I feel I need to, looking forward to meeting everyone and being a part of the community! Well I won't bore you guys and girls any longer, see you all around!