Prosper.com/Tools is here!

Prosper has revealed their lending API/Tools section . Right now it is just a dump of data from their db, but the api section promises webservices coming soon.

What's cool about this? Now you should see smart folks like me building tools to analyze and pick through prosper loans, flagging good stuff and dissing bad loans. By opening up the data like this, prosper is letting interested people create tools for themselves and others to get better results for their systems.

This kind of openness will be good for their business as reliability goes up and people can make better informed decisions.

USPS.com uses Google

Looks like the USPS website uses the google search appliance. I was messing about with the search url and turned this up:

Go to the search form and enter a search for a package.
At the page this takes you too, go to your address bar and erase everything after ?q=######## where ####### is your package search number.

You'll see the secret easter egg usps google home page.