I want to take a moment to thank all of the GSO staff for the continued efforts in providing everyone with an invaluable network security resource. All ages professions and personalities have brought together one of the best information security sites on the internet and with the help of our community base we have grown ever so popular over the years but it is time for a new face as we leap forward to the next level of success. We here at GovernmentSecurity.org are launching a new wave of social networking tools, so you the users can create, share, collaberate with one another like never before.

Common features include:-

Integration with the popular Disqus.com comment system (includes video commenting via Seismic).
- Tools for Twitter like 'Tweet this' button, Tweetmeme badge for tracking tweetbacks/retweets, latest Tweets feed from your Twitter account.
- Article rating system using ajax (built-in) or the online service Outbrain.com (for added features).
- Article tags (using the meta keywords field inside the Joomla! article form).
- Article tools like section/category links with associated RSS feed links, stats, date created, font resizer, 'bookmark this' button, social media sharing and option for integrating a social button from services likeAddThis or ShareThis.
- Related content across the web provided by Sphere.com (as used in sites like CNN.com).
- Drop-cap feature and introtext emphasizing for cool magazine style typography. The styling can easily be altered on the article page template of the plugin.
- Author tools like author avatar (via Gravatar.com) and latest articles from author.
- Image resizing and resampling (server-side) for the first image in your articles. On listing pages (e.g. blogcategory) the image is wrapped with a link to the rest of the article and on article pages the image is wrapped with a link to lightbox popup for displaying the original image which was processed by the plugin.