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Portable Contacts Progress

Portable Contacts : Kevin Marks, Joseph Smarr

Last night was the Portable Contacts Hackathon at Six Apart, and it looks like some excellent progress was made. Joseph Smarr and Kevin Marks had an hCard—to-vcard-to-portable-contacts transformer working (which I got to see in action).

In addition, David reports:

Brian Ellin of JanRain has successfully combined OpenID, XRDS-Simple, OAuth, and the Portable Contacts API to start showing how each of these building blocks should come together. Upon visiting his demo site he logs in using his OpenID. From there, the site discovers that Plaxo hosts his address book and requests access to it via OAuth. Finishing the flow, his demo site uses the Portable Contacts API to access information about his contacts directly from Plaxo. End to end, login with an OpenID and finish by giving the site access to your address book without having to fork over your password.

As Joseph quipped “this is the power of Open, people!”.

Portable Contacts: Joseph Smarr, Kevin Marks, Steve (on the laptop)

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My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.