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Yahoo! Address Book API now open to 3rd party developers
Yahoo! is making that much more useful by launching the Yahoo! Address Book API, which will let 3rd party developers create applications that can interact with your contact list. For example, you can use the API to develop an application that will scan your contact list to find other users who already belong to the social network you're signing up for, or a list of people you may want to invite. The API also supports contact synchronization, which could come in handy if you want to develop a tool that syncs online contact lists with Outlook or Thunderbird.
The API also provides the ability to create, modify, or delete contact information, which sounds a litle scary. But Yahoo! says write-acess is "available on a case by case basis," so developers will need to contact Yahoo! before creating a utility that has the ability to wipe out your address book.
Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using the API for a while, but Yahoo! is launching it publicly today.
[via Mashable]
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Marco said 5:42PM on 6-04-2008
The only fast online address book that really works. No stupid social networking integration, etc. A+
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James said 7:29PM on 6-05-2008
You are 100% correct: Yahoo Address Book (Contacts) is the only detailed online address (part of a nice online PIM) that does exactly what it is supposed to do. It always works... and it even syncs directly with Apple's Address Book app. More fields for data than most other online Contact manager (i.e. address books by Hotmail, AOL and Gmail).