I'm beginning to fall into the group of people that loathes their laptop and thinks that the standard website just lacks personality, depth and an ability to do anything useful. Of course facebook, youtube, tudou, etc. may prove me wrong.

Isn't there anything more? What if I don't have time to go to a website but I still want the data?

Services API to the rescue. You've created an awesome website now get your data off of the site (or onto the site) and to your users' phone(s), twitter account, dashboard widgets, other websites, or ??? (anywhere that is not your website). in short... extend your reach.

Services API provides a nice simple way to create an API for your site just like the flickr API, Twitter API, basecamp API, etc. etc. Services currently allows for XML-RPC, JSON, REST, SOAP and AMF (Flash/Flex) API calls (read and write). API-Keys, quick hooks/calls and loads of sample code to get your site's API up and running quickly.

yyuummm...