Google Data API released for Contacts

Official Google Data APIs Blog: 3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed: "Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don't have to!"

I'm not completely sure how this will change what we're doing, particularly with respect to the SSO with google apps, but... it's a nice change in direction. Could OpenID be far behind I wonder.

This should give us the ability to sync the contact lists of XLsuite with your google account, making filling in forms and other places where you want your contacts handy in the google universe.

Ebay Stores to go

Taking a page from the amazon book of marketing, it would seem that ebay has created a store that you can place on your website.

I took a few minutes to grab a few items and try it out.

The interface is very easy and you can create a store with YOUR products or other peoples (OPP) products in about 5 minutes.

To check it out: http://togo.ebay.com

Of course being an SEO and Traffic Driving sort of guy, I couldn't resist trying it out with some info products I'm interested in. Here's the store I created:

Broadband Speed Test

I like the UI on this speedtest, there are a million out there, but this has a nice flash interface that looks like a car odometer and it's got a bunch of test servers also.