Google Launched Google Visualization API & Gadgets-in-Docs

Google today released two new tools : Gadgets-in-Docs and the Visualization API.

Gadgets-in-Docs

With the help of Gadgets-in-Docs, you can publish your spreadsheet gadgets to iGoogle, where you can see your data-based-Gadget right next to all that other stuff that's important to you.

To try it out, go into Google Docs and open up a spreadsheet. Click on the chart icon, and click 'Gadget...'. Pick your gadget, customize it to fit your data, and then publish it out to iGoogle or to any webpage.

This data table gadget appears as below in iGoogle page.

Visualization API

If you're a developer and want to reach millions of people with your latest creation then Google Visualization API is for you. The Visualization API provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community. It provides a common way (an API) to access structured data sources, the first being Google spreadsheets.

• Embed visualizations directly into your website: Display attractive data on your website by choosing from a vast array of visualizations created by the developer community.

• Write, share and reuse: The Google Visualization API provides simple Gadget extensions to its API to create visualization Gadgets. Publish these here or in the Gadget directory. Become an active participant in the developer community; reuse and share visualizations with others.

• Create extensions to Google products: Write visualization applications for Google products such as Google Docs. With a growing list of products that support Gadgets, syndicate your app.

• Use many data sources, one API: Visualization apps created using the API are able to access any compliant data source with no required code changes to your application. Developers can start building apps immediately using Google Spreadsheets as a supported data source.