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Re: Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

Tore Christopher Steen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:55:52 -0000

JanRain's RPX solution uses the portable contacts structure as a key piece of it's simple third party authentication enablement product. Portable contacts allows data from such identity providers as facebook, microsoft, google, yahoo to all be normalized into a common format for the web developer. JanRain has found the portable contacts definition to cover nearly all the available profile data today and is looking at also making the Gmail Portable Contacts available in RPX.

Re: Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

Chris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:57:02 -0000

OAuth + Portable Contacts + Open Social Graphs = The next big thing in Social Networking, closed networks better get it before it's too late. Add in a bit of mobile location data and things start to get exciting.

Re: Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

TedHoward — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:56:29 -0000

Maybe now Google can get LinkedIn to stop having its users tell LinkedIn what their Gmail username and password are and then scraping. It sets an incredibly bad precedent for LinkedIn to have to do something so insecure.

Re: Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

Eric Rosser Eldon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:53:26 -0000

Thanks, Chris, fixed.

Re: Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

Chris Messina — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:29:42 -0000

Quick typographic change... it's "OAuth", not "Oauth".