Now you can turn your website or blog into a Community site with social features with a new application by Google called Google Friend Connect. I first heard of this from Patric Chan and when I checked it out, it was indeed a neat and, best of all, free application. Check it out for yourself by watching the video below:
Anyone with an account with Google, Twitter, AOL, Yahoo, orkut or Plaxo can join your site thus strengthening your site as your visitors become members and invite their friends to join too. In order to install Google Friend Connect, you do not require any programming skills. You just need to upload 2 files to your host server and copy some code which you paste to the page that you want to install it on.
You can sign up for an account for Google Friend Connect at:
I have added Google Friend Connect to my blog as you can see on the right side bar. Feel free to join and check out how it works for yourself.