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The thing with the Google API is you get used to this quite fast... and you start thinking constantly... hum a DAYPOP API would be cool, an API for Yahoo Groups and email service / contact list / calendar would be useful et why isn't there a W3C specification API, to retreive the latest version of a spec, precise section or a collection of specs updated in the last week? Hey, they list lots of stuff there that could be used for that... Sure ebXML is pushed, but 99% of the world's developpers don't care about purchase orders, procurement or bill of landings... but everyone uses the web everyday, so why not more web services to consume web ressources and applications?!?
[A Frog in the Valley. Communication + Technologies]
You could also integrate services from your customers' own suppliers in the applications you deliver to them. It's a win-win situation. Your customers won't have to buy expensive CD packages from their suppliers that become rapidly obsolete, require expensive subscriptions and having each a different user interface. Suppliers won't have to publish their catalogs and applications on CD. Data are updated and automatically made available on the fly. All that using open standards.
As long as nobody is touching the service's interfaces, all the participants are free to make changes to their system. It's democracy.
12:19:05 AM Google It! 
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