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Steve Ivy

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Yesterday Google released a new contacts API, which has social network operators scrambling to implement.

Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don’t have to!

We’re happy to announce the availability of our Google Contacts Data API that gives programmatic access to your contact list. The contact list is shared among Google applications like Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and more.

This is exciting news for those of us working on DiSo – it would be great to give users the option to add their Google Contacts to their friends. Well, at least until I started reading the Developer’s Guide. The API (like many of Google’s APIs) requires AuthSub support in the client, which requires registering your site with Google:

Note: You must register your application domain with Google before you can use AuthSub with the Contacts Data API.

It’s my understanding that this means that any blog owner who wanted to use a hypothetical DiSo Google contacts import would have to have registered their site with Google, which sounds like a huge roadblock for us. Am I reading this wrong? I’d love to hear from other developers on this.

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Google Contacts API debuts - how useful for distributed sites?

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Yesterday Google released a new contacts API, which has social network operators scrambling to implement.

>Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don’t have to!

>We’re happy to announce the availability of our Google Contacts Data API that gives programmatic access to your contact list. The contact list is shared among Google applications like Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and more.

This is exciting news for those of us working on DiSo – it would be great to give users the option to add their Google Contacts to their friends. Well, at least until I started reading the Developer’s Guide. The API (like many of Google’s APIs) requires AuthSub support in the client, which requires registering your site with Google:

>Note: You must register your application domain with Google before you can use AuthSub with the Contacts Data API.

It’s my understanding that this means that any blog owner who wanted to use a hypothetical DiSo Google contacts import would have to have registered their site with Google, which sounds like a huge roadblock for us. Am I reading this wrong? I’d love to hear from other developers on this.

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Back from the Far East

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So, Jodi and I are back from the Far East, and Jodi has been writing about the trip (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3). For those of you who don’t know, we traveled to Vladivostok, Russia to meet our prospective daughter. We had some basic information about her - deaf, mild CP, 2.5 years old - but were able to get her full medical information after we got the referral. We went back and forth with our doctor a bit trying to determine Annna’s actual medical situation, but eventually decided that there was nothing there that would keep us from adopting her, and so we’re going forward! For more details, check out Jodi’s writeup.

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