Web-Apps Evolution in the Cloud
Software as a Service (SaaS) has been one of the fastest growing trends in software over the past years. The new Google App Engine makes creating tools quickly and effectively and applying new Web-standards like OAuth provides an opportunity for users to leverage data that live in the cloud with the purpose to

• take advantage of the new social trends
• lower costs and improve functionality
• embrace innovative new products, services and applications
• increase knowledge and capability

Google with its mission 'to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful' has its strengths in market & brand leadership in online search and in an ever expanding online product portfolio with a great potential in cloud computing and synching services via Gears.

Here some useful GData APIs including YouTube:

• Google Apps APIs
• Google Base Data API
• Blogger Data API
• Google Calendar Data API
• Google Code Search Data API
• Google Contacts Data API
• Google Finance Portfolio Data API
• Google Health Data API
• Google Notebook Data API
• Google Spreadsheets Data API
• Picasa Web Albums Data API
• Google Documents List Data API
• Webmaster Tools Data API
• YouTube Data API

An excellent ressource for mashups, APIs and the Web as platform can be found at the ProgrammableWeb.

Labels: apis, bizdev, cloud, google, photos, strategy, web2.0, youtube

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