Comments on: LazyGreg: who knows about friend invites? http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/ greg yardley on online product management Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peter caputa http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 peter caputa Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:33:06 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1052 I don't think Rapleaf would be the right solution. They do have this capability into their service to allow a user to have a public page that links to all of their social networking identities. But, I don't think they provide an api like this. Auren Hoffman is the founder and I just chatted with him last week. He's a good guy if you want an intro. They may be able to help you out in the future. Not exactly sure what they are planning. Also... I think they got a bad rap about the way they handled some PR. I wouldn't call Auren or Rapleaf shady. I don’t think Rapleaf would be the right solution. They do have this capability into their service to allow a user to have a public page that links to all of their social networking identities. But, I don’t think they provide an api like this.

Auren Hoffman is the founder and I just chatted with him last week. He’s a good guy if you want an intro. They may be able to help you out in the future. Not exactly sure what they are planning.

Also… I think they got a bad rap about the way they handled some PR. I wouldn’t call Auren or Rapleaf shady.

]]> By: Gopi http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Gopi Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:28:49 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1058 Contact import software is now a commodity...many offshore companies provide out-of-the-box code in multiple platforms (php,.net etc) with regular updates (as the webmail's change often), Ex: improsys.com Contact import software is now a commodity…many offshore companies provide out-of-the-box code in multiple platforms (php,.net etc) with regular updates (as the webmail’s change often), Ex: improsys.com

]]> By: Peter Caputa http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Peter Caputa Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:15:44 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1057 Plaxo provides a nice API/Web service that takes care of all the code for this. It's quite nice if you can get past using plaxo. Plaxo provides a nice API/Web service that takes care of all the code for this. It’s quite nice if you can get past using plaxo.

]]> By: Rob Leathern http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Rob Leathern Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:08:50 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1056 I've actually heard some disturbing stuff about how these software services are actually outsourced... and one company (I don't know the details myself) that's been mentioned in this regard doing somewhat sketchy stuff is Rapleaf (http://www.rapleaf.com). Worth looking at... ? I’ve actually heard some disturbing stuff about how these software services are actually outsourced… and one company (I don’t know the details myself) that’s been mentioned in this regard doing somewhat sketchy stuff is Rapleaf (http://www.rapleaf.com). Worth looking at… ?

]]> By: Paul Lomax http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Paul Lomax Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:31:45 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1055 There's a few bits of code around for this - one is here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/contactgrabber/ Something else to look at is Plaxo: http://www.plaxo.com/api There’s a few bits of code around for this – one is here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/contactgrabber/

Something else to look at is Plaxo: http://www.plaxo.com/api

]]> By: Niki Scevak http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1054 Niki Scevak Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:31:00 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1054 Most are basic screen scrapers where you actually get the username and password from the user and the bot just logs in via that. Yahoo has a browser based authentication, where you authenticate on a yahoo page and the app temporarily gets access: http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/ Gmail also has some pretty rich API support around it: http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi/docs/ Most are basic screen scrapers where you actually get the username and password from the user and the bot just logs in via that.

Yahoo has a browser based authentication, where you authenticate on a yahoo page and the app temporarily gets access: http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/

Gmail also has some pretty rich API support around it: http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi/docs/

]]> By: PEK http://yardley.ca/2007/11/01/lazygreg-who-knows-about-friend-invites/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 PEK Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:07:41 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=439#comment-1053 LazyPaul would just go for the Plaxo widget that will do this for you without the heavy lifting http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget/ LazyPaul would just go for the Plaxo widget that will do this for you without the heavy lifting

http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget/

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