Who wants to hack on...?

[Denny]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:51 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> I've had an itch to do something with social networks for a while. I'd
> like to have all my contacts in one place [...]
> 
> Now, there are about a dozen I'd like to cover and that's a lot of
> work for one person. I can also see a wrapper layer over the various
> interfaces to provide something consistent and useful.

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ ?  (myspack, linkedin,
friendster, six apart (vox), etc)

Facebook invented their own standard though.  Spot the company MS has
shares in.