Faceboogle?

It was pretty stealthy so you may not have noticed, but Google is trying to come up with ways to build something like Facebook. FriendConnect seems like a logical step 1...

My first encounter with FriendConnect happened today:

The image more or less just pops up at the bottom of a webpage (in this case, I was on ScaryIdeas, a site dedicated to weird / interesting ad campaigns)

It's about as annoying as those Digg toolbars. I'd prefer to think that Google isn't stalking me, but seeing as I log into Google immediately upon turning on my computer (for Gmail and Blogger), I guess those chances are slim to none.