The folks at PhoneGnome have just released an XML-RPC API to their platform, so that others can work with and integrate PhoneGnome into their applications. Great idea! They’ve provided a lot of good hooks into the system, are encouraging and hosting a User-Contributed Library and a support forum. From David Beckemeyer’s post announcing the API release:

We haved opened up our simple XML-RPC API to the world.. This API provides a mechanism for other applicatiions to interact with a PhoneGnome. It would allow, for instance, developers of System Tray applications or other such PC-side “widgets” to initiate click-to-dial calls, query a user’s call-logs, and other such PC-Telephony Integration applicatons. It would also permit web-based applications to perform PhoneGnome integration functions.

I’ve got a demo PhoneGnome unit sitting over there on my “must find time to play with” shelf that I’m going to soon put through its paces. I’ll report back on my experiences.