Google Launches Apps Marketplace

Google has announced the addition of a newly formed Apps Marketplace intended to allow small business and website owners the ability to install and share apps on their domains.

The Google Apps Marketplace, announced this evening at Campfire One, allows you to publish applications which integrate with Google Apps and sell them to more than 2 million businesses. Listing your integrated cloud app on the Google Apps Marketplace enables it to have seamless OpenID-based single sign-on with Google Apps, OAuth-authorized access to Google Apps data and makes it easy for customers to access your application from Google Apps' universal navigation bar.

Once installed to a domain, these third-party applications work like any other native Google applications. With administrator approval, they may interact with calendar, email, document and/or contact data to increase productivity. Administrators can manage the applications from the familiar Google Apps control panel, and employees can open them from within Google Apps. With OpenID integration, Google Apps users can access the other applications without signing in separately to each. The Google Apps Marketplace eliminates the worry about software updates, keeping track of different passwords and manual syncing and sharing of data, thereby increasing business productivity and lessening frustrations for users and IT administrators alike.

For more information on the Google Apps Marketplace to businesses check out the Google Enterprise Blog post. Developers interested in learning how to integrate with Google Apps can check out the Google Code Blog. Or, you can explore the Google Apps Marketplace directly at http://google.com/appsmarketplace.