Tag Archives: portable contacts

Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)

Jun 4th – 11pm

And then there were three.
Today, Yahoo! announced the public availability of their own Address Book API. Though Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using this API behind the scenes for a short while, today marks the first time the API is available for anyone who registers for an App ID to make use of the bi-directional [...]

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Machine tagging relationships

May 25th – 1pm

I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about how to represent relationships in portable contact lists. Many of my concerns stem from two basic problems:

Relationships in one context don’t necessarily translate directly into new contexts. When we talk about making relationships “portable”, we can’t forget that a friend on one system isn’t necessarily the [...]

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