I'm back from vacation and will be starting work on the shared pool shortly as enough people have expressed interest in the idea. Being away allowed me to think a lot on how to best implement it to fill a niche that no other pool currently does - listening to what people have been saying in all the pool threads. It will be slightly different to every other pool out there and very low fee (0.5%) so hopefully that will be incentive for people to join, but it will be very no-frills just as this solo pool and aimed at miners of any size. The announcement thread will have a lot more details about how it differs from other pools. I need to spend some time coding up the new pool and will probably start a new thread some time in the next week or two advertising the pool when it is in testing/beta.