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[_] Importing contacts from address books on Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, etc

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 11:08:21 BST 2008 

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Phil Wilson <underscore at philwilson.org> wrote:
> Don't allow the username/password entry, it's A Bad Thing. Use OAuth where possible:
>
> http://adactio.com/journal/1357
> http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForWebApps.html

+1 for "don't do the Password Anti-pattern".

Also, consider not just address book import, but importing of people's
social networks ("social graphs") from Twitter (no OAuth, but
followees are usually public) et al.

See also: OpenSocial:
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

Tim