[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“On Google+, appropriately enough, Chris Chabot, a Google
developer advocate, announced ‘I’m super excited about how the
Google+ project brings the richness and nuance of real life sharing
to software, and today we’re announcing our first step towards
bringing this to your apps as well by launching the Google+ public
data APIs.’“So excitement aside, what’s the story with these APIs? A quick
look at the Google+ Developers site reveals that we’re still in the
early stages here. The sites states that ‘This initial set [of
APIs] is focused on providing read access to public data. We’ll be
adding more APIs over time to build on this foundation and help you
create more types of integrations'”