This week at Google I/O, their developer conference, Google announced the opening of their Places, Tasks and Prediction APIs to the general public.
Places can be used to find businesses and interesting places around you. Perfect for creating your one location based service app. Developers can use Tasks to create simple To Do list type apps that sync with Tasks in Google Mail. Google Prediction gives you access to sophisticated machine learning algorithms.
These services can be used through straightforward web/HTTP based calls though they do require an API key and Tasks requires OAuth 2 to access users data. Luckily Google provides code to do the OAuth authentication with their Google Toolbox for Mac.
My mind is swimming with ideas of apps to build with these APIs. Let me know what you plan on building or if you would like to see a tutorial on how to use them.
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