Google Mashup Editor

For anyone interested in checking out Googles latest offering, Google Mashup Editor, you can have a look at the Overview or read through the Getting Started Guide. At the moment GME is invite only but you can submit your email to be in on the next round of invites.

From the overview:

"Google Mashup Editor is an AJAX development framework and a set of tools that enable developers to quickly and easily create simple web applications and mashups with Google services like Google Maps and Google Base. Google Mashup Editor is a great tool for grabbing information from feeds and letting users see and manipulate it."

Once you get in its pretty easy to get going with building applications. They give you a heap of samples to set you on your way and there is a heap of documentation (tag reference, etc).