“Hello, Google Tuesday, who could hang a name on you?”

Okay, it’s supposed to be “Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you?” (For those of you who might not recognize this song, The Rolling Stones released this hit back in 1967. Hmmm… how many of you were alive at that time?)

Google is planning a series of ten developer events to further advertise its application programming interfaces (APIs) and developer tools this coming spring at locations around the world, including the U.S., UK, Germany and France.

They are offering several APIs that allow third party developers to create services and so-called mash-ups using services like Google Maps. A mash-up combines data from two sources to create a new service. An example is Twitter Vision, which shows the geographic origin of new Twitter posts in real time. Kinda cool, don’t you think?

Google is also offering a toolkit to develop online applications as well as Data API that allows developers to plug into services such as the Google Calendar or its Spreadsheet and Document applications as well as the Google Base structured database.

Quoting Google Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, ” Developers are using Google’s APIs and tools to build innovative web applications that we never dreamed of, and Google Developer Day is an opportunity for them to connect with one another, learn the latest techniues and have their questions answered by Google’s developer product teams”.

Morgan