title: Simple application to aggregate information from multiple web services in fullscreen
body: <p>Whats the easiest way to build a simple 'web' application which is a single page, that just refreshes itself (using AJAX or something) to display continuously changing data hosted on various different servers on the internet?</p>
  
  <p>I want to interface with (for example) Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Google Calendar, and any number of other services that have some type of web API.</p>
  
  <p>The application does not need to allow user interaction other than to configure it with the authentication parameters needed to access those services.</p>
  
  <p>It should be able to run full-screen with no UI elements showing, just the pretty information I am displaying.</p>
  
  <p>I started to write an HTML file using Jquery but I am running into "Same Origin Policy" issues.  Is there a way around this?</p>
  
  <p>I'd love to just write this in Html/Javascript and run it in Google Chrome, is that possible somehow?  I don't know how to get around SOP without hosting my own web server as a proxy to cross the domains.</p>
  
  <p>Is there another alternative that is still pretty easy and simple?  I looked into using the Windows Vista Sidebar but apparently you can't have a full-screen gadget.</p>