Even though I wasn’t able to attend the eighth Internet Identity Workshop this week in Mountain View (check out the latest episode of TheSocialWeb.tv for a glimpse), I wanted to do my part to contribute so I’m sharing the results of a study that Brynn Evans and I performed on Mechanical Turk a short while [...]
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 [...]
By Chris Messina
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Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, DiSo, Life online, Microformats, Technology, Web building
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Also tagged address book api, api, bbauth, DiSo, Microformats, OpenSocial, portable contacts, vcard, Windows Live Contacts API, Yahoo Address Book API
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Back in December, I posted my OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist. I listed 7 companies on my shitlist, 14 on hitlist and 12 on my wishlist. Given that it’s been all of two months but we’ve made some solid progress, I thought I’d go ahead and give a quick update on recent developments. First, the [...]