Comments on: Gigya Socialize Goes Up Against Google Friend Connect

By: Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy

Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:49:37 +0000

[...] will fuel two main widget services: Wildfire, which helps widget makers distribute their wares, and Socialize, a Google Friend connect competitor that adds social networking features to any [...]

By: Gadgeteer10

Gadgeteer10 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:25:43 +0000

Congrats for Gigya, they are growing very fast, competing in the “big league” of Web 2.0 social networks can be a hard job to do, they seem to manage themselves very well. I wonder if they will start to make money with their new advertising program. Gigya Socialize in a nice tool and I sure they will have great success with it.

By: Justin Goldberg

Justin Goldberg — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:01:44 +0000

Branding on individual components is kept to a minimum, and users are only brought back to Gigya’s site for account management purposes.

I like this alot. I hate getting emails from myspace or facebook about messages. Why not let us read those messages right in my email, like any good forum software does?

By: Justin Goldberg

Justin Goldberg — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:29:38 +0000

Does anyone else think that this sounds very similar to Gigli?

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:58:00 +0000

[...] platforms, is getting into the mix by launching a service into public beta called Gigya Socialize. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/28/gigya-socialize-goes-up-against-google-friend-connect [...]

By: Liza Hausman

Liza Hausman — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:38:00 +0000

Peter 1.0 - great points - Gigya will aggregate any graph with an API - but certainly these are challenges any company faces when trying to incorporate these kinds of features.

Gleb - interestingly enough lots of people are already using Gigya to manage friend lists, on hundreds of sites, to facilitate content sharing - more than 40 million contacts currently are managed. To your other point, I think sites like the idea of working with a smaller company where they can potentially have some leverage in the relationship.

By: Michael Chin

Michael Chin — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:54:45 +0000

Social media features are just that, features for any website. Building the features in, etc., is fine but frankly, it’s the easy part. If the real value in all this is the user data–and I agree that it is–why would any serious web publisher hand that over to someone else? Where’s the value in having these features? Engagement? More pageviews? Yes, but without ownership of the social graph that’s all being plugged into an inefficient ad revenue machine. In otherwords, if I’m a publisher, why should I give away free real estate on my website for someone else to benefit? Is the ability to let my audience create a profile page worth that?

By: Mos

Mos — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:28:25 +0000

How many different products like this do we need? I know competition is a good thing, but it seems like with all of these different ways of sharing data, the social networking scene is becoming more fragmented and confusing instead of brought together.

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:44:53 +0000

Not. A. Chance. In. Hell.

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:32:07 +0000

How many friends does one need to be discovered or being connected to using these useless social networking sites?

By: Gleb

Gleb — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:28:33 +0000

Website owner wants to import contacts from e-mails and send invites to do so he has to send his visitors to sign-up on Gigya. As a surfer currently doesn’t have a Gigya log-in and doesn’t know what the hell is Gigya he doesn’t want to give them his/her e-mail password though he kinda trusts the website he uses.
So why should a website owner want to use Gigya?

Though for small websites that can’t afford an own solution to acess emails - it’s ok and could work.

By: James T

James T — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:16:03 +0000

“Gigya Socialize is actually quite unique”? “The ability to import friends from email contact lists”?

You’re kidding, right?

Seriously, guys. This is ridiculous.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:12:13 +0000

I wonder how many of these friend list aggregators will come up in the next while. Then we’ll need aggregators that aggregate the aggregated lists - wow - I guess I am jumping the curve…
Maybe I am just a fool and nobody outside Silicon Valley will ever understand this and so it won’t ever go mainstream… I wonder…

Also my Friends List or my Social Graph and Monetization are two things that don’t gel for me - and a lot of other people. Nobody wants to be monetized when they interact with their friends.

Maybe I am just very Peter 1.0 today.

By: Yaron Orenstein

Yaron Orenstein — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:10:13 +0000

Gigya is one of the most promising startups today in the Social distribution world and I assume will be acquired sooner or later by Google. Good luck !

By: bababui

bababui — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:10:07 +0000

bleh.

By: j

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:06:35 +0000

cool.