Google FriendConnect – instantly awakens and strengthens the community that visits your site by enriching it with social features. Anyone can join your site and discover other members by using information from a variety of services, including Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, AOL, orkut, and Plaxo, strengthening your community as visitors become members. Choose from a range of gadgets to get users commenting, rating, sharing, etc.

The Wordpress Google Friend Connect plugin allows you to let your users to authenticate using their external accounts and comment your posts. It also provides a replacement for the existing WordPress comment functionality by using Google Friend Connect comments gadget.

When you add a new post, someone posts a comment or someone recommends one of your posts using the recommendation button, those activities are posted to the Google Friend Connect activity streams.

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