A Jolt For Social Applications
The contact system behind Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, and Yahoo! Go is now available to developers, thus enabling social applications to further simplify their social applications for users.
Yahoo! announced on June 4th the public release of their Address Book API:
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/06/addressbook_api.html
Having signed up for more than my share of Web 2.0 applications, I have learned how painful it can be to establish my network of contacts from one service to the next. I commend Yahoo! for taking an early lead in providing developers with a tool to better enable their applications to serve the user’s interests.
As a company which provides mobile, desktop, and web services to users, it will be a great pleasure to more efficiently connect a user’s contact information, such as looking up their phone number; so as to seamlessly free the user from a single device in order to enhance content movability and enable content-sharing gracefully between a user and their network.
Ryan Weber, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Co-Founder, W3i Holdings, LLC
Ryan is an Internet marketing pioneer with over eight, profitable years evolving W3i (owner of Freeze.com) in the Integrated Interactive Media industry.
