Alternatives to Pachube/Cosm

Nick, what do you mean? I took a look at the api and the language examples and it didn't look that bad. Of course, it would be nice to have an arduino example and library, but that shouldn't be too hard to come up with. Sure, the site has some jargon, but they have to do that to impress the marketing types that can't speak any language but their own.

At least I didn't see, "A solutions based implementation" anywhere on the site.

Take a look at the python example, even I could read it, and no one ever accused me of being one of the white coats. Overalls and a dirty t-shirt maybe...