I’ve been working on mu for the past few days and have it running pretty well. It’s been pushing out updates to my social networks on each post I’ve made for the past 3 or 4 days, so I’m convinced that part of it works. Here’s a set of features that mu will have:

1. Publish to a wide variety of social networks
2. Be able to queue your updates for when you actually publish your post (ie post scheduling)
3. Authenticate each service as you provide account info
4. Return error messages when farming out updates so you know if something went wrong
5. Error checking and time limiting for each update to occur (to keep the mean time to post down)
6. Smart farming of posts – ie if you send to ping.fm, it will grab your list of services and prevent duplication of updates

Through mu, you will be able to update the following microblogs: Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca, FriendFeed, ping.fm, Jaiku, and Pownce. Pownce may get the axe because I have to provide my API key in the plugin and I don’t want to send that to other people. Also, Jaiku is having problems with their API so that one might get cut also. mu should cover most of the major social networks. If all else fails, just send it to ping.fm and it’ll farm it out to all your services there.

There’s no timetable for mu yet, but I think it’s about a week or two away. If there’s anything you want to see added to mu, let me know in the comments.