The API battle goes on ...

Well, shortly after Amazon's announcement regarding their Simple Storage Service, also known as S3, Google in turn announced their GData API (read this for some more details). GData offers

a standard protocol for reading and writing Web data, combining XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system, based on Atom.

Let's wait for the next Web 2.0-related API that is going to appear in the next couple of weeks, if not days, play around a bit with all this and see what implications this will have on collaborative services ...