On Tuesday, the ArcGIS Online sharing application service has been opened up for a public beta:

6/30/09–Have you ever wanted to share some of your great maps with the rest of the world? Or maybe just easily share some of your work with a colleague? Well, the new ArcGIS Online sharing application, now open for public beta access, can be used as a system for sharing, finding and using GIS content across the Web. With ArcGIS Online, you can upload maps, register online map services, create and save Web maps as items for others to share, and discover and use maps published by ESRI and other ESRI users. You can organize and control access to the maps you share by making them public or private, and you can create and join groups.

Better sharing of geographic information is enabled in part via new technology that allows layers referencing feature or raster data to be packaged into a single "layer package", comprised of both the layer cartography and data. These layer packages can be shared with other users via files, e-mail, or the new ArcGIS Online sharing capability. The new ArcGIS Online sharing services are powered by a full REST API.

The announcement and further information can be found here.

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