Google friend connect is all about making the user life easy, you can join any web site with your Google account, and any web site can have ready made social elements, like friends (subscribers) and comments.
The basic flow of the service is:
I want to accomplish a goal-> I see I can on a site-> I choose to register -> I am redirected to Google accounts-> I login (one click action) -> I share with friends -> I set settings -> I get back to the site to complete my task.
Google engineers have forgot some basic rules of web usability:
1. Most people have a goal in mind when entering a web site, Help people perform that goal as fast and as easy as possible.
Instead of one click registration to the site users are asked to take a long road to complete their goals with sharing, entering details and getting settings organized. If a user just wants to add a comment, this can be way to much for him.
2. Keep users within the context of their goal environment.
In order to register to a site, users are redirected to Google accounts. The originating site design is not kept as the interaction. Users can get easily confused and irritated by the sadden change of context. This problem can go away with time if usage of Google connect becomes frequent and users expect it to happen, but until then…
On the other hand, how hard was it to accomplish login within the original site environment, something like a widget box that they have there anyway.
Waiting to see facebook connect…

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