Quick update here for anyone who may be interested.

The success of the api-for-agencies project has been, hmm... limited at best. I've had some useful feedback, but no firm committments to provide APIs for contributors (with or without the agencyKit). Things may develop in future, but there is unlikely to be any agencies adding contributor apis in the near future (most of them don't think it's worth it but I'm not going to get started on that now).

This means at this stage that the "Image Deck" is unlikely to ever come out of beta, as without half-decent automated systems to build it on top of, it's just too much work for me to do alone.
I'm not cancelling the image deck project, but for a while it will be taking a back-seat to all the stuff that was requested in the picNiche survey earlier this year. This will most-importantly include detailed earnings tracking and a toolbar-api so sites like microstock charts and lookstat can request secure access to your earnings data for charting and analysis.

I can't give a definite 'when' on that yet, but I'm currently building a redesign of the site to bring all the stuff which has developed over the last 2 years together (It think you'll all agree that picNiche.com is looking a bit dated and random now). Once that's up and running I'll have a better idea going forward

Not sure if anyone is interested in that, but there it is for those who are Any questions/comments/requests/insults/jokes?