Sharing Address Book with non-Mobile Me members

I maintain a mailing list for my volleyball friends via a group in my Address Book on my MacBook Pro. I have MobileMe. Most of my friends on the mailing list are PC users and don't have MobileMe. I want to provide everyone on the list a webpage (or whatever) that they can visit to see my current mailing list - we all like to keep in contact with each other. It would be nice if it could be kept current, with name, address, phone numbers, birthdays, photos, etc. I have not been able to figure out a way to do this - to create a shared Address Book that is accessible to everyone in the group, regardless of whether they are a MobileMe user or not. Can you recommend anything? Is there a way to design say a webpage that is perhaps built off an extract of my Address Book? Ideally, I would love for it to remain in sync, but if I can't do that perhaps I could at least manually refresh it periodically. Any ideas would be most appreciated, even if complicated. I can learn. Thanks! Paul

But that is exactly what Address Book Server does. It synchronises (via iSync) with your clients local Address Book, so besides having all your data in a relational database, all your connected clients are also kept in sync an up-to-date. Address Book Server support most modern relational database engine but used H2 by default. Many users have configured MySQL and PostgreSQL is also an option. Depending on your choice of frameworks and technology you should be able to integrate it. However for those less enterprising, there is a friendly web interface already available in the "Enterprise Edition".
To answer your question regarding how this is accomplished. The Address Book API allows direct access to contact information on OS X and the iPhone. However the data can also be accessed via the iSync API. Depending on your requirements either might be suitable for your requirements as well. You could also access the SQLLite backend directly, however this is not a supported method and not recommended. You would also have to figure the schema out for yourself.
Maybe you should just try it out and see how it can be improved.
Disclaimer : As the developer of Address Book Server I have a natural bias...

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;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 79
<div class="jive-quote">On the server, I have created, and started, the Address Book Server service. What should I enter in the Authentication > >Host Name please? The manual says "It should be a fully qualified domain name matched with a reverse lookup record". >How can I check I have got this correct?
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