Simon Willison’s Weblog

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.

# 6th March 2008, 11:29 pm / apis, contacts, google, microsoft, portablesocialnetworks, yahoo

Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000. I’d like to see them try that with Yahoo!’s 100+ properties.

# 4th May 2007, 5:54 pm / freebsd, hotmail, microsoft, open-source, windows, yahoo

MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together. Yahoo!’s engineering platform and culture is Open Source pretty much all the way down. Microsoft’s isn’t. I wonder how that would pan out.

# 4th May 2007, 5:50 pm / microsoft, open-source, yahoo