Beginning today (4 December 2008), we are using Google’s Friend Connect on Keener Living. You can access it from the home page of this blog (on the sidebar).
Quoting from Google’s introductory article on Friend Connect:
Friend Connect makes it easy for anyone to sign in to a website, share a little bit about themselves through a personal profile, discover other people with similar interests, invite their contacts, and interact with friends. Even better, you don’t have to deal with the hassle of creating yet another username and password — Friend Connect lets you log in using an existing account from Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID.
Similarly, you can choose to either establish a new profile or use profiles and friend sources from other social networks that have opened up their services, like Plaxo and orkut.
(The Google link also has a video on the use of Friend Connect.)
Hence, this is a way for you all to get to know a little more about each other. And that’s what this website is about: You. Yes, it is my personal blog, and I do enjoy writing from time to time, but I am sure not getting rich doing this … I do it because I like to share my experiences and thoughts with you, in hopes that you may learn from my successes and failures. Life is too short for us to learn everything on our own.
I hope you find our use of Google Friend Connect to be useful. Once I learn how to do it, I’ll probably integrate Facebook Connect into this blog as well.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
Update (4 December 2008 evening): I’ve noticed that sometimes the Google Friend Connect widget shows that there are no members yet, and sometimes it shows six members who joined this afternoon. Not clear what’s causing this. Otherwise it seems to be working. Again, please let me know your thoughts on and experiences with it.