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Portable Contacts

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Contacts API, Yahoo's Address Book API, and Microsoft's Live Contacts API. It combines
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to make it easier for developers to give users a secure way to access the
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they have accrued online. The goal of the project is to increase
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The editor of the Portable Contacts standard was Joseph Smarr of
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by creating a common and open specification to bridge
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Portable Contacts has been used by services such as
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Index

open protocol
address books
friends lists
data portability
proprietary
APIs
GData
OAuth
XRDS
vCard
OpenSocial
Plaxo
Chris Messina
Google Contacts
Windows Live Messenger Connect
OStatus
"Developer's Guide - Portable Contacts API - Google Code"
"Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive"
Portable Contacts homepage
Portable Contacts 1.0 specification
Categories
Application programming interfaces
Business cards

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