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
phil wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:57:52 +0200, "Paul Carrasco"
paul.carrasco@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/4/06, shane@gnative.com shane@gnative.com wrote:
Yes! I had the same idea when I included the birthdate attribute in
the
contact profile. Is someone else already working on it?
Sounds trivial, but I know that would be a cool feature for many, me
included.
As for the contact image if this is going to be added the we would need
to
look at GD/imagemagik for resizing of uploaded images to be added to
the
database when creating a contacts.
This depends on how we want to manage images:
- the KISS solution (keep it simple stupid) is to use a link to an
image
already hosted on the internet.
This makes me think of my blog, and how it handles 'Gravitars' by simply
displaying an existing one pulled via the author's email address.
What is a gravatar?
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80
pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
more info on it, how to tie it in: http://www.gravatar.com/implement.php
-- Pros would be very little lifting on RC's end, but a simple way to lookup user's icons via email addy (which we'll already have)
Not sure if this would be better/worse than picon, whichever is further
along, more reliable in the long run perhaps.
P