Yeah yeah I know it was leaked before, but now it's official and some of my questions can be answered by looking through the documentation. This in turn generates more questions of course but thats to be expected. Here are some of my initial conversations.

Also this pretty much confirms what Adam Bosworth hinted at the last MySQL conference.

Joe Gregorio has been Dreaming of an atom store for some time now, with the advent of GoogleBase that dream may be becoming a reality, but maybe not quite as expected (see GB's atom support). In fact Google seems to have created their own Taxonomy which can be used with Atom 0.3. Although Mike Arrington see this as little more than a web version of DBase, I believe this is very significant on a number of fronts.

1) This DBase supports RSS and Atom, it will also feature a widely implemented Taxonomy.
2) It's contents could appear in the search results (given the caveats described)
3) This is a social DBase that will end up supporting social effects vial labels/tags or whatever google will call them, along with the Attention data that google collects.

I still have a lot of questions and really need to play with it some more, but the kind of things I am thinking are:

1) Can I just point it to current RSS feeds from Ebay and have it republish (I might need to add a filter).
2) Will google support more advanced atom api features such as api based search. If so one could build all sorts of finding classifying and grouping front ends to it as services.
3) Can one create a atom store interface in javascript for Google Base ? that would be cool because then ajax apis might not need a backend server!!

I am sure there are much more profound effects of this like how one dovetails one's blogs or web sites into it etc.. but I will leave this for another post.