Comments on: Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

By: Tore Christopher Steen

Tore Christopher Steen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:55:52 +0000

JanRain's RPX solution uses the portable contacts structure as a key piece of it's simple third party authentication enablement product. Portable contacts allows data from such identity providers as facebook, microsoft, google, yahoo to all be normalized into a common format for the web developer. JanRain has found the portable contacts definition to cover nearly all the available profile data today and is looking at also making the Gmail Portable Contacts available in RPX.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:57:02 +0000

OAuth + Portable Contacts + Open Social Graphs = The next big thing in Social Networking, closed networks better get it before it's too late. Add in a bit of mobile location data and things start to get exciting.

By: TedHoward

TedHoward — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:56:29 +0000

Maybe now Google can get LinkedIn to stop having its users tell LinkedIn what their Gmail username and password are and then scraping. It sets an incredibly bad precedent for LinkedIn to have to do something so insecure.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:53:26 +0000

Thanks, Chris, fixed.

By: factoryjoe

factoryjoe — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:29:42 +0000

Quick typographic change… it's “OAuth”, not “Oauth”.