Zmarties

Bret Taylor, Product Manager of Google Maps and Google Local, has announced the opening of an official blog to support the Google Maps API.

The first post is uninspired, but it does promise:

• An (approximately) weekly changelist listing the updates we are pushing to the API that week
  
• Official announcements and updates
  
• Workarounds for common API problems
• Techniques for using the API and AJAX in general, e.g, techniques to avoid memory leaks in IE
• API sites that have caught our attention

This should certainly be an easier communication mechanism to follow than the existing Google Group.