There are plans to open the api up sometime next year. I really don’t know anymore than that. The schedule is really quite fluid, all I know is won’t be until at least mid ‘10. There are no development plans in the works for the api for the next few releases (we shoot for about a release a month).
I can guarantee we won’t be providing soap services. You’ll have the options of json or xml.
In any case, I’d love to open the api up, but we’re not stable or consistent enough for outside developers to have any fun with. I’ll be working a little on some of this cleanup in the next few months, but it’ll be a while until we publicize it.
Thanks,
Jason Holmes