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In case you missed Google Developer Day 2007 last month (our coverage here) it’s not too late to see and learn about all the interesting Google APIs, tools and other news covered that day. Why? Because Google’s used their YouTube property to publish these 128 videos from the event. Lots of good stuff covering everything from Google GData programming to Google Gadgets programming to Testing Distributed Systems, and a Google Gears introduction. Or, 124 others. And since it was a distributed event across 10 cities around the world, you can get videos in languages from Japanese to German. On the Google front, our listings for Google mashups keep growing. For example you can check-out:

• 1013 Google Maps mashups
• 17 AdWords mashups
• 17 Google Calendar mashups
• 10 AdSense mashups
• And 13 Google Base mashups

What’s hot online these days? Video. What’s hot in web mashups? Video. We continue to see a steady stream of mashups built with the YouTube API. We now have 123 YouTube mashups listed here. But this is an API that’s due for a change. At last week’s Google Developer Day the folks from this team outlined how they soon be transitioning this API to use the Google GData formats and protocol. See this YouTube API blog post The Future where you can read more about it, including why:

• Better scalability/stability/flexibility
• Standardizing on an existing framework - easier to mash up with other GData APIs
• Setting us up for write feeds later in the year by using the authentication models
• Developers can leverage GData resources, such as client libraries and developer guides

And what would a piece about YouTube be without a video. Below links you to a video from Developer Day to get the story straight from the YouTube engineers. Got ideas on what they should do with it you can let them know in the YouTube API Feature Requests wiki.

Amid all of the API and mashup news last week between the Where 2.0 Conference and Google Developer Day there was another interesting tidbit of mashup news: the Google Earth team bought the Spanish geo-centric photo sharing service Panoramio. The service, started in fall of 2005, lets users upload photos and geolocate them on Google Maps and Google Earth. This application was one of our earliest ProgrammableWeb mashup listings back in 2005 and you can see our Panoramio Profile here. Below is a screenshot from the service back when they started: Of course it’s much more than just a mashup and Panoramio has lots of useful features and a large, quickly growing community (over 1 million photos, 4 million monthly uniques, and 30 million page views — see this Alexa chart on their blog to view how fast they’ve grown). For some time now, Panoramio has been the default photo layer for Google Earth which in turn had a lot to do with this acquisition. A big congratulations to co-founder Eduardo Manchón and the Panoramio team. You can read more at Panoramio’s Q & A page and the Official Google Blog.

We have discussed the Google AJAX Feed API when it launched. It offers Ajax developers the ability to access any public feed through a unified API, bypassing any domain issues in a secure way. The team has started to build useful widgets on top of their own API, and show you just the beginnings of what is possible. Slide Show Control The AJAX Feed API Slide Show Control allows you to create a photo slideshow from any feed that supports media RSS, such as PhotoBucket, Flickr, or Picasa Web Albums. You can add a slideshow as a one liner: and can tweak various attributes via the options (e.g. transition times, controller feel, thumbnails, and more). FeedControl / Blog Roll The AJAX Feed API FeedControl widget allows you to add a blog roll by setting up your feeds: You can tweak the look, enabling you to create a tabbed component, a sidebar style, or more. You can see these in action on the AJAX Feed API Playground blog.