openSocial, gPhone

Last year, when everyone was thinking of google launching a rival service for PayPal, it released 'Google Checkout' (payment service+API) allowing developers to build secure applications
Although it has it's own limitations compared to paypal, it's a gud step forward. In the pipeline are google mobile and openSocial.

While everyone's of the view of google to launch a 'gPhone' and a new social networking platform or a major restructuring of orkut(google is sponsoring a HCI project at Carnegie Mellon university), it might just turnout that google is developing a OS for mobile phones and API for social networking sites. As per the buzz, openSocial is supposed to debut as API tomorrow at code.google.com/api