Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here (Update: we’ve built and launched a test application here). Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud ...

To help developers gain better insight into how to create a Google App Engine application, Google has open-sourced Thoughtsite — a discussion forum build on Google App Engine.

If you are just getting into the web development business and you want to build cloud-based applications, there's no better place to start than with Google.

Have you tried Google App Engine yet? It's a way for you to host web-based applications on Google's infrastructure, and reap the benefits of their uptime and scalability, and their api's.