I added a FriendFeed widget to my sidebar.  I’ve had a FriendConnect widget there since the very beginning, yet have not seen much activity since the beta rollout of my site.  Also today I added the FriendConnect Social bar.

Do these things add value to a site?  That was my question at the beginning of this year and that is still my question today. I can say that FriendConnect has really beefed up the widgets in the last 6 months, so it will be fun to see if it helps build community.

Have you joined joined my site via FriendConnect? You currently have 3 opportunities via the Social bar, the sidebar widget and the comment widget.

Are you following me on FriendFeed? Give it a shot, I dare you! I need to understand FriendFeed because there are many people following me.  So fill me in if you use it and know more about it than I do.

Scoble says this:

Google is more like an ant hill. One powered by 20% time which is how the ants find out where the food is. Heck, enough of Google’s ants have left to join Facebook, Twitter, and friendfeed, that it should be clear by now there’s some new tasty food bits that they aren’t yet munching on. Heck, friendfeed should be a major embarrassment to Google since that 14-person team has at least five Google superstars on it (the guy who came up with the idea for Google not to be evil started the company. That’s Paul Buchheit and he also ran the Gmail team. Also on the friendfeed team is the guy who ran the Google Talk team, the guy who ran Google Maps team, the designer for a whole bunch of Googley products, and the guy who ran the backend team on Gmail). Over at Facebook and Twitter I keep running into people who used to work at Google too.

There’s a lot going on out in the social world and it’s time that I got caught back up!

Join me!
the social bar at the bottom

Talk to me!

leave a FriendConnect comment

Be my friend!

via the social bar at the bottom or in the sidebar