Add Google Friend Connect to Your FriendFeed Lifestream

Adding Google Friend Connect activity to your FriendFeed is not hard to do when you know a few “work around” tricks, and I can show you how to get it done in 10 easy steps!  The challenge is that FriendFeed does not allow Google Friend Connect to be added to its’ stream yet and that your Google Friend Connect Feed that goes through Plaxo is not able to be read by FriendFeed, Facebook etc…

I have to say with a little bit of an evil chuckle, that by adding your Google Friend Connect to your FriendFeed, and having the FriendFeed app enabled in Facebook, you can now feed your Google Friend Connect activity straight into Facebook for all your Facebook friends to see… And since Facebook has made it so damn hard to integrate THEIR Friend Connect app on the average users blog, you will likely have some of your jealous Facebook friends climb out of the walled garden to come and play with you in the real world.  *wink*

Here is a Handy Little 5 minute video i created that walks you through the feed setup:
Below the Video you will find the text tutorial.

1. To get started go to your Google Friend Connect app on your site and click “settings” you will be taken to your profile page.

2. In your Google Friend Connect Profile, Make sure you have selected Orkut and Plaxo

3. Select the “Show Your Activity on this site to other users and friends” box

4. Go to your Plaxo profile page and you should now see your Google Friend Connect stream showing. You will want to click on the “view all” in the right corner of your Pulse Stream to see your Pulse Stream page.

Here is what your Pulse Stream Page looks like:

5. Firefox users, click on the RSS button up in your URL window to go to the Plaxo Pulse Stream Feed page.

6. Enable Your PulseStream “me” on the Pulse Stream Page and copy the URL to your clipboard.

7. Go to your Feedburner Account, and burn the new Feed URL into a feed:

8. Go to the new Feed page and get the New FeedBurner URL for the Plaxo Feed that has your Google Friend Connect Feed in it and log into your FriendFeed account:

9. In FriendFeed you will want to “Import a Site”, treating the new Feedburner feed like a blog:

10. Add your Feedburner URL to the RSS/Blog entry and once you hit save it should import your Plaxo/Google Friend Connect feed right into your FriendFeed, and anywhere else you have friendfeed enabled to stream!  You can also use the feedburner feed to stream into your other lifestreams that you might have in other networks.

I am sure that once you have the hang of this, you will think of creative ways to use your Google Friend Connect and other social feeds across all your networks. Remember that you may not want some feeds to display in some networks, so use your discretion as to what feeds are running where to avoid mixing your business, church, family etc… into one big swimming pool.

Erika~ Technology Goddess
More Google Friend Connect Videos, Articles and Tutorials

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(Has Videos of my setting up Friend Connect on this site).

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