Google released Friend Connect, a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative "OpenSocial," and also adds social features to a given site which connect the site to the social network site of a user. The latter, Google argues, holds the potential to increase your traffic, like when they post the event "Pete added a review at I-Love-Movies" to Orkut, which may make people visit I-Love-Movies. You may think of Friend Connect as a kind of "People Sense", which is a code name Google gave the product; whereas Google AdSense provides an attachable ad layer for your site, this service lets you to attach a social layer.
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