Hyves is a social networking service founded in 2004 that is exclusive to the Netherlands, with 5 million active Dutch members accounting for 55% of the population. It started as a mobile-only platform and 10% of users frequently use mobile clients, with location-based services as a key focus. Hyves launched its API in 2008 and has 2000 registered partners using it to build mobile, desktop, and TV products, with public, private, and experimental read/write methods. Hyves plans to develop a full Android client in 2009 and provided details on API methods that return member and content data.

1. Hyves API & Android Android Dev Camp Amsterdam 2009 http://tinyurl.com/892njj