Every day Google continues to amaze me. It sometimes seems that they are a treasure chest rather than a multinational corporation. The number of free tools they have increaces almost week by week, just last Monday they announced Google Friend Connect. This is a new service that allows site owners to include OpenSocial apps, these are gadgets that use user’s accounts from sites such as AOL, OpenID to do social things on your website. The number of things possible is only limited by developers, As we know from the number of wordpress plugins, this could possibly be a great source of gadgets that could be added to any site.
This is just another great and free tool for webmasters to use. And while I wont be using it in its current form, its invaluable for someone without coding experiance to add ’social’ to their website. However I wonder sometimes when its going to come back to haunt us, perhaps if Google gets bought up and and everyones tools become pay to use. But I prefer to be optimistic, so I cant wait for Google to bring out more tools. The way things are going we’ll soon have every website interconnected and able to share friends from each one of them. I’m not sure this is something I’m particularity looking forward to, as I prefer to keep my real-life friends separate to my Internet friends.
I use a range of tools from google, all of which have helped me improve the website. These are some of the webmaster tools I use.
