Would this have anything to do with the Google Chrome OS? Could they be doing this open sauciness to make the technology read for third party developers? - Johnny Worthington

great post! - Jenna Bilotta

agreed... this is the first i'm hearing of this since i have been afk for a few days... good work louis - Chris Heath

Love posts like this - getting uber-geeks in the loop with each other pushes the web forward maybe more than anything else - Christopher Galtenberg

Thanks, Christopher and Jenna. I know this is not destined to be a high-traffic post, but it's the right thing to do, to help understand it a bit more. There are enough other blogs writing "10 Tips for Twitter Lists" already. :) - Louis Gray

Johnny, I doubt the 2 are correlated, but it is interesting that both Google and Facebook released big Javascript APIs as open source in the same week. Regardless, it's always nice to see companies opening up more, something Google has been known for doing quite awhile now. - Jesse Stay