What are you doing on September 8th and 9th, 2007? If you are in the San Francisco Bay area (or can get there), and more precisely Richmond, California (a bit north of Oakland and Berkeley), it appears that there will now be an “unconference” called “SocialNetworkDevCamp” with the purpose:
SocialNetworkDevCamp will focus on API and Widget development from Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Linked In and others. The camp will also start the process of identifying open APIs and data structures which would facilitate the creation of open standards for social networking.
Very cool to see…. and hopefully it will stimulate a good bit of discussion and action around the potential mashups that can occur between all these various services. “Open standards for social networking” would also be very good to see!
If are interested in attending, just edit the wiki page and add yourself to the list of participants (or volunteers).
(Tip of the hat to Julian Bond for raising this issue in a Skype groupchat focused on mashups.)
Dan, this is exciting news. Perhaps there could be a wiki page where users could add suggestions for features they would like to see, or ideas for ways to link the various services. There is so much discussion going on via Twitter and Pownce, for example, about ways to transfer/move/add friends in bulk or to rearrange them as groups.
For example, I think you’re a friend on Pownce but not on my Twitter. It’s hard to keep up with who’s using what service.