Google Reader API Love
From Niall Kennedy, Google Reader now has an API. I've written about trying to map Atom into JSON, and Google Reader's format sort of goes in that direction, but not quite all the way there. It looks like the content is being delivered as HTML, incidentally escaped for JSON safety - essentially XML entities " ' > and < all get escaped as \u equivalents. I'll have to look into this someday, aside from the obvious use case of putting headlines onto your own site, I'm not sure how great this is. It seems to just give you access to feeds - the demo is from iTunes, and you could certainly do something similar with Amazon, Flickr, or del.icio.us. I don't see a way to get at things like starred items, which would be something that I'd be more interested in, and would give Google a lever against del.icio.us, if they wanted such a thing.