The Orioles have reportedly inked 28-year old Cesar Izturis to be their shortstop. 2 years and $6 million.
At this time last year, I was pretty horrified that Izturis was in Baltimore's plans for shortstop. But for the first time since 2005, Izturis played more than 900 innings in the field and his defensive metrics were at a point where he was probably one of the top 2 or 3 fielding shortstops in the NL. He seems to have fully recovered from serious injuries he suffered during the 2005 season.
Offensively...he's a black hole. You could argue that his bat (or lack thereof) negates his excellent fielding. He's a .260/.299/.331 career hitter. He had only 8 Win Shares last season and that includes 4 for his fielding alone. Brutal.
Sadly, he is an upgrade over any of our shortstops from 2008. He may be overpaid at $3 million a year but this is an improvement for the club.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Hernandez is a Red; O's Get Freel and Two Prospects
Andy MacPhail shipped Ramon Hernandez to Cincinnati yesterday for utility man Ryan Freel and two infield prospects.
Matt Wieters has made Hernandez expendable. His defense has declined and his heart didn't seem to be in it for Baltimore last season. Hernandez had really bad luck with the bat last year. His batting line of .257/.308/.406 was in stark contrast to his PrOPS line of .292/.341/.457 and he managed to hit .285/.341/.446 in the 2nd half. He hit the ball hard but didn't catch a lot of breaks. He's still got something left in the tank offensively and he'll be moving to a hitter's park in a weaker league. The Reds may get a good year at the plate from him even if they don't get a good year from him behind it.
Freel is a good glove who can play 2B, 3B and all outfield positions. I don't think he'll be able to hit his way out of a wet paper sack in the AL even if he's healthy and he's expensive at $4 million a year but a good defensive replacement and he's only signed through the end of '09.
I like that MacPhail was able to get some prospects although they are not great ones. Brandon Waring is a 22 year old 3B who hit .270 with 20 homers with the Class A Dayton Dragons. But he struck out 156 times to only 43 walks and at 22 was pretty old for that level of ball. Still, it was an .813 OPS from a thirdbaseman and he could be a late bloomer.
Justin Turner is a light hitting 2B who has shown potential to play other positions. He hit .289 at Chattanooga last year with 8 HR in 78 games and got on base at a .359 clip. Interesting guy who should start at Bowie next season at age 24.
Since we were getting rid of Hernandez anyway, this was a pretty good deal though the real impact is the room made for Matt Wieters, not the players we got in return.
Many O's fans are pretty excited to get Freel but he's not really that great at playing baseball. Great attitude, fine glove, mediocre player.
And now a word about Buck Martinez. I'm in the minority, I think, when it comes to Buck. People seem to hate Rick Dempsey and find him annoying as a color guy. I enjoy Dempsey enormously and find Martinez cringeworthy. People complain about Jim Palmer talking about what things were like when he played but at least he was a Hall of Fame pitcher! Why do I have to listen to Buck talk about his lackluster playing career or his pitiful managerial record?
Anyway, Roch talked to Buck Martinez about the Hernandez-Freel trade and in between the hurky-jerky gesticulations and spasmic shoulder shimmies, Martinez said this about Ryan Freel:
"He plays with a lot of energy. He's kinda like Brian Roberts with a lot more enthusiasm, you know, he does the same types of things."
Really. Brian Roberts with more enthusiasm? First, if I was Brian Roberts, I would be enormously offended. You think I am Ryan Freel with less enthusiasm? Really? Roberts has slugged over .400 for the last four years. He's hit double digit homers in three of the last four seasons. He has played in 138 games or more for the last 5 seasons. He hit 50 doubles last year!
Freel has never slugged .400, has a lower batting average than Roberts for his career (.284 vs. .272) and only beats out Brian's OBP by .002! Guess all that enthusiasm saps your energy. I'll take the more reserved Roberts, thanks. There's more:
"He'll bunt more than Brian Roberts. He won't steal as much but he'll steal key bases. He's a great baserunner."
Forgetting the fact that Roberts has stolen 226 career bases to Freel's 142, Freel has a career success rate of 74% to Brian's 79%. And Freel's numbers have regressed over the last three years (77%, 65%, 60%) while Roberts have gotten better (83%, 87%, 80%). There's little to support the assertion that he's a "great" baserunner. And outside of the fact that Freel can play secondbase too, he's nothing like Brian Roberts.
Freel's a nice utility player but let's not get carried away.
Matt Wieters has made Hernandez expendable. His defense has declined and his heart didn't seem to be in it for Baltimore last season. Hernandez had really bad luck with the bat last year. His batting line of .257/.308/.406 was in stark contrast to his PrOPS line of .292/.341/.457 and he managed to hit .285/.341/.446 in the 2nd half. He hit the ball hard but didn't catch a lot of breaks. He's still got something left in the tank offensively and he'll be moving to a hitter's park in a weaker league. The Reds may get a good year at the plate from him even if they don't get a good year from him behind it.
Freel is a good glove who can play 2B, 3B and all outfield positions. I don't think he'll be able to hit his way out of a wet paper sack in the AL even if he's healthy and he's expensive at $4 million a year but a good defensive replacement and he's only signed through the end of '09.
I like that MacPhail was able to get some prospects although they are not great ones. Brandon Waring is a 22 year old 3B who hit .270 with 20 homers with the Class A Dayton Dragons. But he struck out 156 times to only 43 walks and at 22 was pretty old for that level of ball. Still, it was an .813 OPS from a thirdbaseman and he could be a late bloomer.
Justin Turner is a light hitting 2B who has shown potential to play other positions. He hit .289 at Chattanooga last year with 8 HR in 78 games and got on base at a .359 clip. Interesting guy who should start at Bowie next season at age 24.
Since we were getting rid of Hernandez anyway, this was a pretty good deal though the real impact is the room made for Matt Wieters, not the players we got in return.
Many O's fans are pretty excited to get Freel but he's not really that great at playing baseball. Great attitude, fine glove, mediocre player.
And now a word about Buck Martinez. I'm in the minority, I think, when it comes to Buck. People seem to hate Rick Dempsey and find him annoying as a color guy. I enjoy Dempsey enormously and find Martinez cringeworthy. People complain about Jim Palmer talking about what things were like when he played but at least he was a Hall of Fame pitcher! Why do I have to listen to Buck talk about his lackluster playing career or his pitiful managerial record?
Anyway, Roch talked to Buck Martinez about the Hernandez-Freel trade and in between the hurky-jerky gesticulations and spasmic shoulder shimmies, Martinez said this about Ryan Freel:
"He plays with a lot of energy. He's kinda like Brian Roberts with a lot more enthusiasm, you know, he does the same types of things."
Really. Brian Roberts with more enthusiasm? First, if I was Brian Roberts, I would be enormously offended. You think I am Ryan Freel with less enthusiasm? Really? Roberts has slugged over .400 for the last four years. He's hit double digit homers in three of the last four seasons. He has played in 138 games or more for the last 5 seasons. He hit 50 doubles last year!
Freel has never slugged .400, has a lower batting average than Roberts for his career (.284 vs. .272) and only beats out Brian's OBP by .002! Guess all that enthusiasm saps your energy. I'll take the more reserved Roberts, thanks. There's more:
"He'll bunt more than Brian Roberts. He won't steal as much but he'll steal key bases. He's a great baserunner."
Forgetting the fact that Roberts has stolen 226 career bases to Freel's 142, Freel has a career success rate of 74% to Brian's 79%. And Freel's numbers have regressed over the last three years (77%, 65%, 60%) while Roberts have gotten better (83%, 87%, 80%). There's little to support the assertion that he's a "great" baserunner. And outside of the fact that Freel can play secondbase too, he's nothing like Brian Roberts.
Freel's a nice utility player but let's not get carried away.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Base Hits: 12/9/2008
Billy Ripken comes clean about his infamous "F-Face" bat pictured on the 1989 Fleer baseball card. Originally, Ripken said he was pranked by teammates. Turns out, Ripken wrote the "offending" phrase himself...*****
Kevin Millar would like to come back to the Orioles, even in a part-time role. But evidently he is interested in playing for Seattle as well. My guess is that Millar wants to keep playing...anywhere that will let him.
*****
The Chicago Tribune reports that a four-way deal between the Cubs, Padres Orioles and Phillies is close to completion. I don't chase a lot of Hot Stove talk but the crux of the deal for Baltimore would send Garrett Olson to San Diego and Felix Pie would come in from the Cubs. Also:
The key for that deal to work is for the Phillies or Orioles to take Jason Marquis, with the Cubs agreeing to eat some of his salary.
That's an interesting wrinkle. Marquis is not a good pitcher. But he's only under contract for one more season and if the Cubs were willing to eat 3-4 million dollars of his $9 million dollar salary, he might be a serviceable stopgap.
*****
MASN has announced that the Hot Stove Show is returning December 12th. Roch Kubatko will be hosting with Jim Hunter and Phil Wood. I'm glad that Roch will be on the show, the more work for him the better. I'm even happier that Phil Wood will be on the show. Wood is an excellent baseball commentator and I listened to him for years on D.C. radio. From the press release:
Phil Wood has decades of experience covering Washington and Baltimore sports teams including the Bullets, Capitals, Nationals, Orioles, Colts and Ravens. Wood is widely considered to be one of the region's brightest baseball historians, offering fans both historical perspective and insight into today's breaking sports news.
Absolutely. Look forward to seeing it.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Base Hits: 12/8/2008
Still not much going on in the Oriole offseason but...I though it was interesting that the Orioles signed minor league catcher Adam Donachie. If you've read this blog from the beginning, the Orioles selected Donachie in the Rule V draft and he was with the Orioles during Spring Training 2007. I was a big supporter of Donachie (at least over Paul Bako, an offensive black hole whose defensive prowess paled in comparison to Donachie's) and think he could help the club in a couple years as a defensive specialist.
The Orioles have no organizational depth at catcher (after Matt Wieters) so Donachie has a good opportunity here. Donachie has never hit for average but showed decent plate discipline and some pop.
ISO for the last 5 years:
Year Level ISO
2004 A .043
2005 A+ .173
2006 A+\AA .135
2007 AA .144
2008 AA .087
2008 was not a good year for Donachie but he has shown some raw power over his minor league career. Donachie should start the season at Bowie and, perhaps in a couple years, he can be the Doug Mirabelli to Matt Wieters' Jason Varitek. (Chronic Red Sox haters; please forgive me for the comparison but it's the best analogy I could think of...)
*****
Over on Roch Kubatko's blog, there is some discussion about trading Ramon Hernandez to the Cincinnati Reds...for Ryan Freel. A couple of comments:
I would take Freel on the O's. He can play many positions and I like the way he plays the game.
I'm going with Ryan Freel. He can play 2B, 3B and OF well. Even some games at SS.
OK. If he could play SS, I would be OK with this. The truth is that Freel has never played a game at shortstop and will be 33 next season. He hasn't played more than 75 games in a season since 2006. He has never been an average bat. even in the NL. Nice glove but outside of a salary dump, that's a bad deal for Baltimore.
*****
The Orioles have not yet made a decision about their future Spring Training home and the suitors are getting impatient. Sarasota has made an offer and wonder if the Orioles are actually serious about coming. Indian County (Vero Beach) has given the Orioles a December 15th deadline or they will rescind their offer to move the Orioles into the old Dodgertown.
*****
Khalil Greene had been traded to the St. Louis Cardinals. For the second straight year, the Cardinals have helped the Orioles avoid a stupid move for a mediocrity at shortstop.
*****
I want the Orioles to sign one of these Japanese pitchers they are talking to. We need pitching of every kind and it would be a sign that Andy MacPhail's focus overseas is starting to bear fruit.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Google Friend Connect Launch-Working-Tutorial-Install
Google Friend Connect Social Media Launch-Working-Tutorial-Install:-New Social media google friend connect has been Launched by google and i would like to share about it with you on its working tutorial and how to install it in blogs especially as some may find it dificulty in doing so.
What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
Google Friend Connect Launch-Working-Tutorial-Install
Google Friend Connect Social Media Launch-Working-Tutorial-Install:-New Social media google friend connect has been Launched by google and i would like to share about it with you on its working tutorial and how to install it in blogs especially as some may find it dificulty in doing so.
What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
Google Friend Connect Launch-Working-Tutorial-Install
Google Friend Connect Social Media Launch-Working-Tutorial-Install:-New Social media google friend connect has been Launched by google and i would like to share about it with you on its working tutorial and how to install it in blogs especially as some may find it dificulty in doing so.
What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
What is Google friend Connect:-Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other and grow traffic by adding social features to your site.Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
What Google says on new launch ?
If you run a website and would like to add social features, you can now sign up for the wait list and learn more by visiting www.google.com/friendconnect. We're going to keep things pretty limited at first so we can gather feedback from site owners, developers, and users, but, in the weeks ahead, we'll be reaching out to more site owners and adding more social apps to the gallery.
How to install google friend connect in Wordpress Blog or website
How to install Google friend connect in Blogspot
1.Firstly you need to go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect
2. Next You can easily find Set up a new site in their page click it.
You will redirected to below page click on continue link
3. Enter the site name and url and you will be directed to upload "rpc_relay" and "canvas" HTML files to your server.As in blogspot we can't upload it, so i will help you in doing in blogspot.
4. Download both the files.
5.Now open rpc_relay.html in notepad and copy its contents and start a new post in blogspot.
Now keep the title of post as rpc_relay and paste the contents you copied from rpc_relay notepad file in blog post and publish it.
6.Now again start new post and do the same for canvas.html file in by opening it in notepad copy its contents and paste them into new post with post title canvas and publish it.
*Errors*- While publishing the posts with title rpc-relay and cnvas you might encounter an error saying that you cant use the HTML tag, you have to check on stop executing tags and continue to publish it.
*Note*-Publish the two posts on old dates so that posts may not appear in your recent blog posts. Do it from post options i.e at the left of place where you write labels for your post in post editor.
7.Now after publishing continue to other page in google friend connect.
8. you will asked for test to finalize set up jus click it and contnue if you have published both posts succesfully.
9. Now add a members gadget to your site just go and customize your widget and generate html codes of it and paste it in your site.
There are many gadgets you can use in your site that falls in categories of members gadget and social gadget in sidebar of google frind connect page.
You can select any gadget you like customize and generate codes and paste it in your website.
After getting installed the google friend connect members widget check the below widget to make clear how this widget works on your site.
How Installed gadget on your blog or website works Video
You can check the Working of google friend connect by joining it placed in my blog sidebar.
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