3. 2. 1. Contact. The Google Contacts API has landed

On a side note, I used to love that magazine and was disappointed when they changed it to "Contact Kids". I think there was also a TV show.

This is weird I was just looking into this yesterday and seemed to miss them releasing the API.

The other options I was looking at was A.) doing it ourselves. B.) using libgmailer or some other OS API C.) using octazen.com.

The octazen approach seems to take the least amount of time, which is important in this situation. The problem I was having with the octazen demo is that it was breaking on gmail accounts. When I asked their tech support what was going on they seemed to not know about the issue and asked me to try again. I bet it doesn't work because google changed their calls when they released the API. Now we at least have another option if we decide to go with A or hack up B or C.

very awesome this. We've just been working on getting our sync engine to work with GMail, using crappy gem's and been writing specs to use their undocumented JSON calls. Which would have been fine, but this is even better.

Looks like Google is actually doing something with their Dataportability membership!

(BTW for those interested check out www.soocial.com our sync tool)

Yay, perhaps now we'll have a better import/export tool. Or maybe a tool to create more Xobni-like features (most frequent contacts, etc.)

"Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password... Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information..."

I cannot say, how laughable that sounds to me.

I would never even think first about giving one website my passwort to another website.