UltraNormal

For our soon-to-be-a-launchin' Ruby on Rails app, we're looking for services that provide 48×48 buddy icons (you know, like AIM does). So far, it's surprising how many different social networks and web apps have them, and it's equally surprising how few of them have APIs to get at them. So far, I've got AIM Buddy Icons, Flickr buddy icons, and Twitter icons - because they're really easy to get at (some easier than others). If you know of more services (or happen to run one) that has APIs for getting buddy icons (that are 48×48), please let me know! We'll give you a link and make your users happy in the process, because they get to use their cool icon.

One of my early goals with the project was to reinvent as little a wheel as possible:

• I don't want to store passwords, or make users remember another one, so we're supporting AIM and OpenID logins
• I don't want to host, resize, handle uploading, a bunch of images, because that means users have to upload yet another one (hence the question above).
• I don't want to make people fill out a big long nasty profile, so we don't have them (they're short and funny).

We'll be launching the new blog in the very near future, and the product hopefully before SxSW. I'm way too excited about it. I even posted a sneak peek of the logo because I couldn't take it any more (oh, the design on this thing... it's gorgeous - the best looking web app I've ever been associated with, and I've been involved in plenty).