Google Looking To API “Everything”, Lay Undersea Cable

What’s crazier, the stuff I’m about to talk about, or the fact that it’s probably true? The world is getting exciting in almost outlandish ways these days.
Google is planning on releasing on November 5 a new set of APIs, apparently in some quest to “out-open” Facebook. The idea is that Google aims to combat Facebook by being super open, opening up more of its data than Facebook is willing to, starting with Orkut and iGoogle, and expanding to Gmail, Talk, and other social services. This is likely relative to previously talked about plans to build a social layer over and connecting many of Google’s properties, with Orkut as a base.
On November 5 we’ll likely see third party iGoogle gadgets that leverage Orkut’s social graph information – the most basic implementation of what Google is planning. From there we may see a lot more – such as the […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg