LittleSis has gotten two mentions in the UK press recently. First, a BBC News article mentions the possibility that a LittleSis for the UK might get funded by mySociety, a nonprofit that promotes civic tools. They’ve put out a call for proposals about sites to develop in the UK and LittleSis is in the running. The idea for a UK LittleSis will be pitted against other sites and users will vote to see which they think should be developed.

mySociety founder Tom Steinberg says:

“The next step will be on a different scale from what we have built before,” said Mr Steinberg, “something that might have an order of magnitude more impact or more users.”

There is currently no site like LittleSis in the UK. There are certainly plenty of powerful people to connect, so we’re excited about this possible partnership. More to come on how you can help us by voting.

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A few months ago, I came across a Wall Street social graph made with LittleSis data on How We Know Us, a website “investigating, discussing, and measuring social capital.” Erich Morisse, the creator of the graph, included a little note for us:

P.S. LittleSis: API pretty please!

An API (application programming interface) would have let him access LittleSis data more efficiently. As it turns out, Sunlight Foundation soon came through with a grant for a LittleSis API, which will allow developers to access data from LittleSis and present it however they want. Over the past month we’ve rolled it out for testing, and we’re really excited about the possibilities it will open up. (Developers: get a sneak peek at api.littlesis.org).

Today Erich published two more awesome network graphs produced using data from the API, one of Healthcare and the Senate Finance Committee, and the other of Best Networked Healthcare Lobbyists.

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