1月 08 2009

Footprint gadget for your FriendConnect

Published by Eiji at 1:07:32 under FriendConnect, Google, Mac, OAuth, OpenSocial, SocialWeb, Widget

I developed FriendIntroducer as an experiment and was trying to understand how FriendConnect is different from ordinaly OpenSocial implementation. So this time, I’ve tried to develop a gadget which you can find FriendConnect interesting, Footprints. You know the idea if you’ve tried MyBlogLog before.

What is Footprints?

Footprints is a gadget to track visitor of you blog. Look at the gadget on bottom left of this blog. If you’re not joined or signed in, do it to check what it does.

Footprint is a pretty popular idea on japanese social networks. Once upon a time, SNS were all closed and it was difficult to find people you may know. Footprint functionality was a good tool at that time to find who’s interested in you.

Footprints1

As you could imagine, this gadget records visitor and its time. When viewed by others, timestamp will be displayed how long ago, you’ve visited. Also, you can remove your own footprint if you want. The xml is located at:

http://devlab.agektmr.com/OpenSocial/FriendConnect/Footprints.xml

Feel free to take it and use it on your blog.

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  • Hi Eiji, thanks so much for sharing your Footprint gadget. It's a great tool. I downloaded it and installed on my blog but what did I do wrong? It's not appearing correctly. Help! I'm at http://studio618.blogspot.com, and the gadget is on the right sidebar at the bottom. Sorry to bother you!
    Theresa
  • Hi Theresa.
    I'm not quite sure what you did on your blog. Also, I'm not familiar with Blogspot's functionality. But it seems like you just pasted my footprint gadget's source code onto somewhat kind of form on blogspot. Am I right?

    If so, it won't work. Try following page. There should be official link to my gadget.
    http://www.google.com/friendconnect/admin/site/...
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