Google will make some announcements on their new APIs and social networking platform called “Open Social” soon, until then you can learn more at SearchEngineLand.
For developers, the APIs will provide the ability to develop for multiple platforms at once. Here is a great pre-launch article about the API that answers some initial questions.
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