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Google Launches the Google Apps Marketplace

2010-03-09 21:05
Today at the Google 8217;s Campfire One event at the company 8217;s headquarters in Mountain View the Internet search giant is launching its new app store for business, known as the Google Apps Marketplace.Last week, we broke the story that Google Apps Marketplace would launch today, reporting that it would be an app store integrated within Google Apps that would allow third-party developers to sell software directly to Google 8217;s business consumers.Now, with developers gathered at the Googleplex, we 8217;re about to learn how Google Apps Marketplace works and, more importantly, which apps are going to be available at launch.My live notes from the event are below:Google Apps Marketplace: The Details - Note: you can watch the live stream of Google Campfire One on the Google Developers YouTube Channel.- Vic Gundotra, Google 8217;s Vice President of Engineering, has just started speaking- Vic is talking about feedback it 8217;s received from its business customers. Google believes that business apps should be run in the cloud. One problem: to use multiple business apps, you need to log into multiple websites, which can be messy and a security threat.- Google Apps Marketplace announced.- Details: $100 flat fee, no matter the amount of apps you launch. 20 revenue share. This is an important number, as most app stores charge 30 revenue share, especially Apple 8217;s iPhone app store.- Over 50 partners for Google Apps, including Aviary, Expensify, Intuit, and others.- Now Google is talking about the technical details of how to get your app added into the Google Apps interface.- Google 8217;s diving into secure data access via OAuth. Google 8217;s clearly thought about how to make sure that information that apps need is received from users, but that apps don 8217;t take more information than they need.- Google has brought up a developer, Ryan, to demo some of the code to integrate his app with Google Apps Marketplace. It 8217;s a Hello World type of app.- If you go to http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/, you 8217;ll see the store 8217;s future splash page. - Intuit is demoing. They 8217;re the people behind Quickbooks and showing off their Intuit Online Payroll app within Google Apps.- They 8217;re showing of integrations of Intuit 8217;s payroll system within Google Calendar. Logging in via Google Apps seems intuitive. - New demo: Scott from Atlassin is demoing Jira Studio. The dashboard they 8217;ve built with Google Apps integration is very impressive. Screenshots coming.- Fingertip access to Google Talk. It has Google Docs integration, and is available today. It 8217;s a very killer apps for development management and issue tracking. - Another demo: Manymoon.- The key themes seem to be A) how easy it is to code integration with Google Apps, and B) How many nifty things you can do linked to Google Apps. Google Calendar will definitely benefit from these apps.- Everything will be available tonight for purchase- Last demo of the night: R...
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