Google Friend Connect 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.

The Google Friend Connect plugin for Joomla CMS allows you, as a site adminitrator, to let your users to authenticate using their OpenID accounts and comment your content.

You can add a Google Friend Connect social bar, members gadget, site comments gadget, recommendations, interests poll, newsletter signup, featured content, and adsense in your site section of choice.