Haiku is currently missing a subsystem allowing application to be connected to Web 2.0, although this is becoming important relatively to the interaction between users and "the world" through the Internet. The development of the Services Kit would permits to Haiku applications to access various web services, such as micro-blogging (twitter, ...), pasting services (pastebin, pastie, ...), social networks (last.fm, ...).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/shisui/2010-04-28_gsoc_proposal_creating_services_kit_core_elements/