Sadly, Groundspeak can win this 'war'. They are the gate keeper, and since all the other listing services are lame, there realy is no competition. And, there are no good apps for any of those other listing services, so no matter how bad you think geocaching is, it is still the best out there.
That said, I am still urging Groundspeak to allow others to use the API.
PS as for Live.geocaching.com, I just tried it today. It looks like it has some potential, but currently it is realy bad, and super slow. Using an API is supposed to (among other things) speed up the access to data, not slow it down. What is up with that?
im going to call and email them untill i am told how to get or "purchace" api access . it was given to the iphone devs some how ..