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Google Brings Friend Connect, Social Features to Joomla

Wednesday, 13 January 2010 07:11

Google has just announced that its powerfully social Friend Connect features are now available for open-source content management systems  and Joomla. Site owners can make registration easier for users and offer them a set of social features -- all without writing a single line of code. Even site owners without programming experience can add these plugins.

Joomla integrations include the latest Google Friend Connect features, like Interest Polls, AdSense, Newsletter Subscriptions, Featured Content, and well-known gadgets such as Members, Comments, Recommendations, Activities, Reviews and the Social Bar. When a user joins a Friend Connect site, an account is created and automatically associated with his or her external account of choice (Google, Yahoo, or Twitter, for example).

The social gadgets can be placed anywhere in the site using the standard Joomla administration interfaces. Site owners can moderate reviews and comments, create new polls to collect information about community members, and then advertise on the site using that information. The newsletter feature allows site owners to create and manage their newsletters using Friend Connect's interface, and site members can subscribe and unsuscribe as desired using the newsletter gadget.

For more details, visit the Joomla projects at Google Code. To see them working, please visit the Joomla demo.

Resource: http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2010/01/add-social-features-to-your-cms-friend.html

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-1 #6 2010-04-22 09:49

Well it is really a nice & encouraging news for Joomla users. Being a Joomla Web Developer it is indeed very much fascinating for me. Thanks for sharing.

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0 #5 2010-03-25 14:52

thanks. glad to see using Joomla! becomes more comfortable.

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0 #4 2010-03-23 10:56

Its really a nice news you have provided.As a Joomla Web Developer I will make use of these features.

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0 #3 2010-02-18 07:36

Good news for joomla users.

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0 #2 2010-02-12 11:52

Nice article, thanks for posting it.

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+1 #1 2010-02-11 12:13

Great! It seemed like only a matter of time before Google implemented its featured into CMSs

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