Google Pops the Cherry

I started my Monday reading TechCrunch as usual. Google will be launching its own data portability effort called Friend Connect. Is an “open” social network coming? Using Friend Connect, any website owner can, according to the press release,

“add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming.”

There is nothing really earth shattering here, just that the Friend Connect tools are designed such that there’s no need to do any actual coding, just plug in your site’s info and copy and paste the code into your page.

It would be nice is if eventually Google or somebody makes it possible for websites to combine the Friend Connect data with their own. Oh, and how does this factor into the MyWorld speculation?

So there you have it. Google pops the blog cherry.