Is AOL trying to get back into the game?
A D.C. metro-area job listing on 37signals:
In need of a top notch individual to lead a highly visible development effort. Project is for the office of the CEO for a well-known, large, successful company who is seeking to diversify their efforts and needs you to assist them in building their own Social Networking Site to accomplish that goal.
Our best guess is that the company in question is AOL, whose efforts to build social networks around its instant-messenger software appear to be going nowhere. Any other ideas?