On 10/4/06, Chris Hembrow <chris.hembrow+mail-rc@pixelseventy2.net> wrote:

Speaking personally, I would not want this. Part of the reason I moved from using a gmail account as my primary account was so that I had complete control of MY emails. I'm sure google would not do anything bad with my data, but it's MY data, and I want it where only I have access to it. Implementing an external address book system would be opening that information up for abuse. Can you really guarantee that plaxo aren't going to sell that data to spammers or have it stolen by crackers?

Besides, what happens if their service goes down? You might lose access to your address book, even temporarily this could be a royal PITA.

Just by tuppence worth

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On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:26:22 -0400, Randy Noval < randy@sermo.net> wrote:
> yay for addressbook management!
>
> as a thought though, rather than re-work stuff that's already been
> created, why not use existing tools. in particular, plaxo. i've been
> using it for a while as a sync tool between my treo, thunderbird, &
> outlook and by-and-large, it's been great! and they have an API:
> http://www.plaxo.com/api/
>
> and a really nifty widget demo (access address lists from other apps):
> http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget_demo
>
> but using their (already well-thought out) field set as a guideline
> might be a good way to go.
>
> just a couple of thoughts. i love the enthusiasm in this community!
>
> thanks,
> randy