According to this article Google will launch it’s new service, a payment system that most people currently call GBuy on June 28. GBuy looks to be a direct competitor to eBay, however until it is released no one can say for sure what kind of features it will have and how much similar to eBay it will be. To be honest I wouldn’t mind eBay getting a bit of competition, some serious competition I mean.

The article closes:

“Short term, GBuy is more negative for eBay than it is positive for Google,” Rohan said. “Longer-term, it could be a game-changer.”

Google has announced the release of the Google Calendar API. From the Google Code Blog.

Developers appreciate a nice web application, like the one that launched last week with Google Calendar. Even more, they appreciate a nice web application programming model that enables them to build applications, not just use them. Enter the Google Calendar data API.

The Google Calendar data API is based upon a common API model called GData. The GData model uses REST principles and Atom or RSS 2.0 syndicated feeds as the base resource model to expose data held by Google services (like Google Calendar).

Read the Rest of the Google Code Blog entry

Google has released their finance tools today and of course, it’s under beta (would you really trust a google product if it wasn’t under beta, its almost part of their brand now).

It is really nice looking and as are all google products quite clean. Two noteworthy features are the fact that when a quote search is done it also pulls up related blog posts and discussion.

And of course there is a whole bunch of “cool ajax” so take a look.

If you’ve been holding your breath for Google News to leave beta before you jump on board it is finally time. Well okay I certainly hope there is no one that didn’t use it for fear of the beta, but I’m willing to get it turned some users off.

Quite frankly I think I’ll use Google News less now, it doesn’t have that the same hardcoreness. Because when I was using it in beta, I was living on the edge, anything could have gone wrong…

Okay I get it, the fact that it was in Beta really seemed to mean absolutely nothing, I still do wonder if being out of Beta will draw more people.

For more read the post on google’s blog.

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