Google today has added a new member to the GData family - Picasa Web Albums, the Google Code Blog announced. Like other GData APIs, you can add, request, update and delete albums, photo and tags.
Although it is not mentioned in the API page, but there’s a JSON format of the API you can use - as you might already know, my Albums page on Googlified is powered by the my little script.
What I would like Google to improve is to have the smaller

Business Week is reporting plans by many social networking sites to open up their network to content developers, in an effort to grow their user base.
[Facebook], MySpace.com, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Google’s orkut are expected to…open their code to third-party developers this year as well—promising to kick off a spurt of innovation in social networking.

Virgin Mobile is among the many company’s licking their chops, at the thought of tapping into these mega-networks

We’re proud to announce that we’re taking our search API out of beta, and rebranding it the Live Search SOAP API 1.0, to reflect the search engine that is powering it.
 
This release provides continued enhancements to the original API, from which you submit up to 10,000 queries per day for News, Local, or general Web content

Google has quietly axed the web services API to its eponymous search engine. The stealth move was made without any announcement, but visitors to the page now receive a blunt message, backdated to 5 December, advising them that the SOAP API is no longer supported.