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