Google introduces Social Bar for Friend Connect

As Techcrunch reports, Google introduces the Social Bar for Google's Friend Connect. With it Google tries to make Friend Connect to be visible everywhere but is smart enough to make it not too prominent. It also offers nice features, so maybe this concepts will really pay out.

Here is what is written about it on Google's Social Web Blog:

• 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.

Now let's wait until Facebook Connect will come up with something similar...