Still not quite sure how Google Friend Connect fits in. Here’s what it does if you haven’t heard about it yet. It let’s you build a mini social network in your site. Sorta. You put a widget on your site that allows others to ‘join’ your site using their existing YahooID, Google ID, AIM or OpenID accounts.

Once they joined they can invite their friends from other networks like MySpace, Facebook, Delicious and also interact with site members.

You can also add other gadgets like a ‘Wall’ so people can leave comments or a Review gadget. So far I haven’t seen any gadget I’m interested to put on there yet since I actually prefer the content to be on my site and spiderable. However if you’re not concerned about the SEO aspect and just the social network and social traffic this might be an interesting experiment.

I’ve got it up on MomsGadgets.com – look in the sidebar and come join us. I feel kinda lonely 🙂

To see how it works, check out this video from Google Connect

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