Google just launched Social Bar

Yesterday, Google just launched Social Bar as a part of Google Friend Connect. The bar enables users to comment on any page of the website as long as it has got Social Bar enabled. Brilliant! The bar is alot better than Members gadget which people have integrated since Google Friend Connect announced. From Social Web Blog, here are the features of the social bar:

• On the far left, visitors can join your site, see their identity, and edit their profiles and settings.
• Your visitors can also delve into your site’s activity stream to see what’s happening throughout your site. It includes links to recent posts made anywhere on your site, helping other visitors quickly find where the hottest conversations are taking place.
• The wall gadget can host a discussion for the whole site, a section of pages, or each individual page, letting your visitors easily read and leave comments.
• Lastly, visitors can see the other members of your site, check out their profiles to see how like-minded they really are, and even become friends.

After integrating the “Social Bar” to my blog, here is my first thought:

• Google leaves so many options to integrate. It’s good but some are quite unvalued. Put the bar on top (disappeared whenever user scroll down) and enabling to comment on the entire site don’t make the site more social. It’s just like the members gadget and comment gadget in another format. So classic and This only makes me to miss the good old days when people were interested in dynamic websites.
• Viral ability is not really good. It’s so hiden and unatural. Although your activities are brought across the websites you have joined, your friends only can see your activities when click on your avatar on the bar or gadgets.

After all, Google has done a good job. You can check out the bar right in this blog and leave your comment via either worpress’s comment form or the comment gadget.

Watch the video below to know how to add the social bar to your website.