All your base are belong to Google

[mdlbear]

Google has finally officially announced the launch of Google Base. There were a couple of surprises, like the fact that items expire, and it's not entirely clear how their hosting works -- if you put a URL attribute on your item, the search result is a link to it, otherwise they'll "host it for you". There are some indications that you might get the equivalent of a "home page" for hosted items on your account, but I haven't played around with it enough to know for sure.

I expect some very interesting and innovative uses to appear over the next few weeks, though. And I fully intend to use it to publish the locations of my filksong pages, software projects, and whatever else I can think of. Watch this space.