Driving Directions with Street View on Google Maps. That’s pretty cool. via josh.

TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching An App On Google App Engine. simple app, mentions bulk uploading data and using your own domain.

YouTube - Developing and deploying an application on Google App Engine. wasn’t too crazy about some of the django templating but deployment was crazy simple.

Google App Engine. i’ll file this under “very big deal”. i’ll also get out that python book too.

Google Visualization API. now this is cool. from javascript, you can source a google spreadsheet and create data visualizations (check out the options in the gallery like heat maps, interactive graphs, gantt charts, etc). They even have the google finance interactive time-series gadget.

YouTube APIs and Tools - Google Code. customize the player, control it from javascript, embed it in other flash apps, and some cool features for managing uploaded content.

Prediction Markets and the Flow of Information at Google: ETech 2008. hopefully this talk will be either put online or thoroughly blogged about. I think I should attend Etech one year.

FT.com - Google homes in on revenues from phones “Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset”

Microsoft challenges Google with audacious $44.6bn bid for rival Yahoo | guardian.co.uk. now that’s insane.

Google Talk adds translation service. supports 26 languages. the babelfish lives!

Why Can’t Yahoo Search Marketing Block Fraudulent Transactions? - TechCrunch. seems Yahoo’s affiliate programs have some serious shortcomings.

Developer’s Guide - Google Chart API. google API for making charts. generates images. too bad they didn’t bundle some of that cool google finance flash stuff. via paul.

Google LatLong: Explore new terrain. new terrain maps from google. and when are they gonna get street view in seattle?

Paul Kedrosky: Facebook Really is That Company. as in the greatest place to work where you’ll regret it if you didn’t go there.

A 34-company committee couldn’t create a successful ham sandwich, much less a mobile application suite.
- on google’s mobile phone platform

Checkmate? MySpace To Join Google OpenSocial “Suddenly, within just the last couple of days, the entire social networking world has announced that they are ganging up to take on Facebook, and Google is their Quarterback in the big game.”

Google’s market cap of $219 billion makes it the 5th largest company in America. It’s only 9 years old and is now only smaller than ExxonMobil, General Electric, Microsoft, and AT&T.

Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web. Marc Anderseen talks about Google’s new Open Social framework for building shit for social apps. via ram.

Buzzword. online word processor done all in flash. i’m impressed. slick looking app. all the features i need and the docs look nicer than google apps. no right click is annoying though.

China redirected Google and Yahoo to Baidu on the day the US gave the Dalai Lama an award. I’m surprised this wasn’t mainstream news.