Google has created the Ajax Libraries API. Basically Google is calling it a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JS libraries. These libraries include:

jQuery
prototype
script.aculo.us
MooTools
dojo

If you use the Google JS API, you can do stuff like:

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<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
// Load jQuery
google.load("jquery", "1");
 
// on page [...]

Earlier this month (5/14/08 @ 05:40 PST) Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash. One of the changes that you notice right off is the difference and smoothness in animation. Its great to finally have the ability to integrate this mapping application into a flash experience and have access to the geo API natively.

Resources
Announcement
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-google-maps-api-for-flash.html
Documentation [...]

I ran across this post on the Google Blog describing what makes a web design Googly. Here are Googles 10 design principles:

Focus on people—their lives, their work, their dreams.
Every millisecond counts.
Simplicity is powerful.
Engage beginners and attract experts.
Dare to innovate.
Design for the world.
Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
Be worthy of [...]

The following email was sent to Amazon Web Services customers on 4/23/08 announcing the new pricing structure for data transfers

Dear Amazon Web Services developers,
We’ve often told you that one of our goals is to drive down costs continuously and to pass those savings on to you. We have been able to reduce our costs for [...]

Amazon announced today, via an email to its EC2 subscribers, that they are working on a persistent storage feature for their EC2 service. It seems that it would be implemented as an attached volume to your EC2 instance. It will behave like an unformatted hard drive or block device. There will also be tools to [...]