"Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website."

"Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services."

"One of the reasons Hulu caught on so quickly was the ability for users to embed full-length TV episodes on their personal pages. Hulu says that its content has been distributed on 27,000 sites and over 500,000 individual embed players."

"NewsWare is msnbc.com’s laboratory for news-infused games, tools and other experimentation. From the first-ever interactive cinema crowd game to graphic news visualizers, we’re always searching for useful and fun ways to enhance and extend the msnbc.

"...arguing about aesthetics is like singing about traffic. It’s not only ineffective, but it’s in large part not very pleasurable..."

"The Google Chart API is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a web page. You embed the data and formatting parameters in an HTTP request, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart. "

"We don't want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. And data mobility is a key to that."

"Over the last five or six years we've seen a tremendous shift in power from destination sites to search."

"Google has announced their OpenSocial Alliance, a way for developers to build social applications that span more than one social network. (...) Now comes word that MySpace is joining, which would make everyone except Facebook a part of the alliance."