Well, the evergreat Google do offer us an abstraction on top of her BigTable database layer using her own API and we could only use these api if we have an GAE account. Obviously it's a little bit disappointing if we only want the BIG TOY in our pocket. But no more than one precious weekend, there is someone jumping only to give anybody free access to the database itself.

  This application is called BigTable As A Web Service, it offers an RESTful API of just using GET/PUT/DELETE methods to access the row and column of your database. Just like what we should do with URIs. I must say it's quite a great idea for saving small data if needed. And Google should offer this kind of API as a Webservice, Does she?

  The second app that i'm gonna talk about is SPRUNGE. This small application allows you to redirect the standard output scream directly to an webservice. Then yo could check the output with your web browser. What i'm thinking is using it to test my bash scripts, cause the syntax highlignting helps a lot for me to check out the errors. Just like this one.

With developers being more familiar with Google App Engine's usage, there is some interesting apps coming up.

Just like this one, Simple Sketch App.

In the box above, you could move your mouse to draw picture in it as well as saving it and share the painting with others. It's quite a cool application to play with.

And here's the author's link:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/technohippy/

The other one that caught my attention is Latrz

This is a application for users to submit articles when they are surfing on the internet, and come back to read them if they got time later, to me it's quite a useful app, cause i always can't find the articles when i really want to read them. So thanks a lot!

  On Apr. 7, 2008, the ever great google reveals world's biggest secret that she is ready to host any kind of web application in the unique contain which is called Google App Engine.

  To a web developer, this kind of movement is no doubt revolutionary. We used to do a whole lot of worthless things such as to buy a server, to install an OS, to choose a language and a framework. Now we don't need to compare the pros and cons among all the choices. A simple but tremendous solution is right there waiting.

  Once upon a time, i watched a video about Guido van Rossum's talk about his job at Google involving a code review system using Django's template framework. This really starts an debate over which one is the right python web framework. And before long, with the launch of App Engine including a naturely built in Django support. To a guy make the right choise, nothing can be better than this.

  From what i can imagine right now, there will be millions of new application taking shape on the this platform. Tracking all these new apps down should be quite exciting. And that's the reason why i took some time to set up this website. I hope that in one year from now, i could collect enough applications to cover all the aspects about online activities and all of them based on this simple but powerful engine.

  Google has offered us his engine, so let's burn it with oil!