Google OS Video

Originally scripted as a Jack Humphrey interview, I just released this Google OS video trying to answer your questions on what Google is doing and how a Web OS can benefit your business.

Google Web OS Browser Chrome Based, Try It Now

I have been running a browser based OS for months now and I was before that, I just did not know it. Here is an insiders view of the Google Web Browser OS from someone that has been using it since 2008.

Google Friend Connect - YouTube Adds Twitter - GFC adds Bookmarking

Google Friend Connect has added huge viral sharing to Google Friend Connect widgets. YouTube Adds Twitter links right to YouTube video pages. GFC adds Bookmarking, 30 social bookmarking sites in the Google Friend Connect widgets.

Chris Lang Welcomes Google Friend Connect Questions Live

I will be taking all Google Friend Connect questions here on my Googling Social blog tomorrow and from here on out.

There is allot of confusion and misinformation out there and I would like to set the record straight for all of you and help you get past any problems you are having.

Just enter your questions in the comments section and I will be glad to answer it live in person. Just let me know how I can help.

This is also an effort to build a GFC (Google Friend Connect) FAQ for us all to be able to refer to. Google watches everything we do on this blog so we will be bringing Google some major insight to what they need to do better.

Google Rolls Out Friend Connect on Blogger

Google Friend Connect
released on Blogger,

but still trying to fly under our
Googling Social radar...

Google instead of Friend Connect
calls it Following on Blogger.

You can try out Friend Connect right now if you have a Google profile in the widget in the upper right hand corner of this blog under the heading "Followers" by clicking the join button. Confirm your join request and here you can enroll in Friend Connect if you do not already have a Google Social profile.

Next, click one of the avatars of those who have already joined and add the person as a friend and send them an introductory blurb.

The next screen you will see is their Google profile, links to their social networks and their Google Reader shared items. This is Google's social bookmarking application.

NOTE: All these links open in a new tab so you will not lose this page.

Here is the lowdown on the rest of the Google Social Network and Bookmarking application.

Here is JohnT's blog post from July 28 when he predicted Google Going Social before I was even talking about it publicly.

Here are two sites you can play with Google Friend Connect on, just one part of the Google Social Network: Googling Social.

Social networks might actually be semi-anti-social

Google Friend Connect for Blogger Users

How to add the Friend Connect widget to Blogger.

For those of you who do not know how to use Google Social, called Googling Social, I have instructions to create a Google profile, add friends to from Gmail and get started with Google Reader which is Google's social bookmarking application.

Currently, the links to get to the pieces of Googling Social are hard to find so the best starting point is someone elses Google profile, so here is mine with a link to my Wickedly Evil Social Marketing Blog where you can find instructions to making friends in Gmail and Google Reader.

Chris Lang's Google Profile. Chris Lang's Social Marketing Blog

Look in the upper right hand corner of the page, the link is "my profile" and it is right behind your gmail address.

Word of warning, the Gmail address that you are logged into will be your public Gmail address in Google Reader and how you make friends thru Gmail. So if you do not want that Gmail address to be public, choose one that you want to use.

You only get one Google profile no matter how many Gmail addresses you have, so choose wisely.

If you have any questions you can email me from my contact page on my site. Also if you want to add me as a friend in Google Reader, send me an email at chrislang[at]gmail[dot]com.

Obfuscations in the address are used to fool spam bots that harvest addresses so just replace the monikers with the appropriate email characters.

Cheers! = Chris Lang and JohnT from the driveway and the inaugural Indiggnation driveway cast.

Google Social Bookmarking Is Here

Google social bookmarking has quietly been released within Google reader.

You can share blog posts.

You can bookmark single posts from feeds you are not following.

Add friends and share items thru Google Reader.

What no one else seems to have caught is that Google Reader will suggest other blogs for you to follow based on your friends reading and sharing habits.

More on Google Social Bookmarking here...