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I have been very much heads down for Google Developer Day.

We finally got to launch the website, which uses:

• Google Maps API: Of course
• Google AJAX Feed API: Showing blog entries on the location home page, and in a lightbox on the main page
• Google Picasa API: Showing photos on the location pages
• Google Spreadsheet Data API: We are using this as a pseudo database that people at the various locations use to control their site

There are fun hacks galore, such as using cron to update a google spreadsheet with the current time in various locations, and then accessing that spreadsheet from JavaScript to get the data.

The best part though, is the throbbing: