Three major social networking applications have jumped online in the past week. Myspace, Facebook, and Google are all offering new tools to embed social networking in websites.

Google’s friend connect looks like the simplest of the three in terms of helping you create a small snip of code which is planted on pages, instantly delivering social functionality. I can’t say for sure because I’m in the process of testing each, but Google has a history of delivering high functionality to websites with very simple, non-programmer instructions and tools.

More on each of these as experiments continue…