Simon Willison’s Weblog

Importing your social network from other sites. Dopplr now does this from GMail, Twitter, vCard or hCard and XFN. I’m convinced that contact import is a killer app for OpenID.

Posted 26th June 2007 at 1:46 am

Recent articles

Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025

contactimport 1 dopplr 12 gmail 23 hcard 6 microformats 32 openid 213 twitter 160 vcard 2 xfn 5

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