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Introducing the Google Contacts Data API. Brilliant! (and about time)—now there’s no excuse for asking your users for their Gmail username and password so you can import contacts from their address book. Yahoo! and Microsoft need to catch up on this one fast.

Posted 6th March 2008 at 11:29 pm

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3 comments

  1. Isn't this what you want from Microsoft?

    Ewout - 7th March 2008 11:35 - #

  2. It looks like it is. Any idea when that was released?

    Simon Willison - 7th March 2008 17:55 - #

  3. Microsoft released the Live Contacts APIs last week (28-Feb-2008) along with a whole range of other enhancements to the Windows Live Platform.

    http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/02/ 27/213.aspx

    Nice to see Google catching up ;-)

    Jorgen Thelin - 7th March 2008 20:17 - #

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