Exploring OpenSocial

Fivos and I spent some time hacking an opensocial app yesterday. We want to use features such as list the owner's friends, persist data about the owner, retrieve data about the owner's friends (those who use the app) and then display all these in a fun/useful way. We are eager to test it, and because most sites "whitelist" apps or developers, i.e. a guy has to read our email and it's a long weekend, we were basically unable to so far ...

• hi5: persisting data is mocked out
• orkut: whitelist request made ...
• myspace: whitelist request made ...
• ning: works! no wait ... it doesn't. it's only up to version 0.5 so far, and it must have a bug with persisting data -- a very weird one.
• plaxo: whitelist request made ...

Which leaves us with waiting for a whitelist approval, which might force us to actually not code this weekend. horrible! not code on a weekend! what else can we do?