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I've just read an interesting post of Alex Boxworth called as mentioned: How To Provide A Web API. I totally agree with his view, just that I'd add:

- Document your Web API completly, with examples.
Different providers offers documentation in different forms, more or less complete. Web API consumers rnage from gurus to beginners, and I suppose you want your API used by as many people as possible. A structured, step by step instructions with samples will help a lot.

- Create code repository for scripts based on your web API.
There are many people capable of writing good code based on that API they may want to share with others, maye open-source. Why not create repositories for these small projects?

I've just read about Blogger API updates you might be interested. Seems that they updated documentation and code samples, but also integration with other Google products, especially Calendar. Good to know.

Popular (mostly among teenagers) social networking site Facebook.com has launched their web API. After you register your API key you have access to a few methods like friends.get, photos.getAlbums or users.getInfo. Basically, you have access to your friends, photos, messages or events.

They have a limit of 100,000 requests in 24 hours period. For details see online documentation.