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		<title>By: abbishek</title>
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		<dc:creator>abbishek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Gladys,

I am interested in your proposal. Please let me know how to proceed.

Thanks,
Abhishek</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Gladys,</p>
<p>I am interested in your proposal. Please let me know how to proceed.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />
Abhishek</p>
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		<title>By: gladys</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2449281</link>
		<dc:creator>gladys</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear , 

I will be highly appreciated upon receipt of your response. However, I attracted with your personality after Am through with your profile it gave me more confident that you can be trusted though we haven&#039;t meet each other before. 

However, I am Mrs. Declark Gladys; I work with bank of Scotland London branch (BSLB) packaging and courier department. I want you to help me clear this package that is in one of a courier company in overseas, of which I have secured a diplomat who promised to help me deliver it to whomever I appoint as a partner to his position. The package involve sum of $10,500,000,00USD all in $100.00 bills. 

These are the necessary requirements I need from you: Name influx/Phone number/Address, Occupation and your position, Age/Status, State/Country. 

And I hope at the end of the day you will have 30% while 70% will be for me which shall be invested together with you in a joint investment, other modalities will be discussed as soon as you get back to me. I will be highly appreciated upon receipt of your positive response, so that we can discuss on how to get the consignment of money deliver to your address and your sincerity towards this matter, 

Once again, I would appreciate your regard of this matter as highly confidential in view of the political situation in my country. Please contact me at once to indicate your interest. You can also contact me with this my alternative Email address{gladys_declark@hotmail.com} I await your urgent response. 

  

Best Regards 

Mrs. D Gladys,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear , </p>
<p>I will be highly appreciated upon receipt of your response. However, I attracted with your personality after Am through with your profile it gave me more confident that you can be trusted though we haven&#8217;t meet each other before. </p>
<p>However, I am Mrs. Declark Gladys; I work with bank of Scotland London branch (BSLB) packaging and courier department. I want you to help me clear this package that is in one of a courier company in overseas, of which I have secured a diplomat who promised to help me deliver it to whomever I appoint as a partner to his position. The package involve sum of $10,500,000,00USD all in $100.00 bills. </p>
<p>These are the necessary requirements I need from you: Name influx/Phone number/Address, Occupation and your position, Age/Status, State/Country. </p>
<p>And I hope at the end of the day you will have 30% while 70% will be for me which shall be invested together with you in a joint investment, other modalities will be discussed as soon as you get back to me. I will be highly appreciated upon receipt of your positive response, so that we can discuss on how to get the consignment of money deliver to your address and your sincerity towards this matter, </p>
<p>Once again, I would appreciate your regard of this matter as highly confidential in view of the political situation in my country. Please contact me at once to indicate your interest. You can also contact me with this my alternative Email address{gladys_declark@hotmail.com} I await your urgent response. </p>
<p>Best Regards </p>
<p>Mrs. D Gladys,</p>
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		<title>By: Ed Eliot</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2353879</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Eliot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yahoo! has experimented with OAuth in some areas. Their recently released location brokerage service - FireEagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/) uses it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yahoo! has experimented with OAuth in some areas. Their recently released location brokerage service &#8211; FireEagle (<a href="http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/'>http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/</a>) uses it.</p>
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		<title>By: Jan Horna</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2351741</link>
		<dc:creator>Jan Horna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dave, 

as for your comments above, is your idea of better email platform similar to Xobni, an Outlook add-on? I hope so, just making sure :)

This leads me to another question: isn&#039;t there a way of integrating all email platforms (e.g. Outlook, webmails etc.) into a social conversation system? Such a system could replace email as we know it now.

What do you think?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave, </p>
<p>as for your comments above, is your idea of better email platform similar to Xobni, an Outlook add-on? I hope so, just making sure <img src='http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>This leads me to another question: isn&#8217;t there a way of integrating all email platforms (e.g. Outlook, webmails etc.) into a social conversation system? Such a system could replace email as we know it now.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
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		<title>By: dave mcclure</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350963</link>
		<dc:creator>dave mcclure</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@dickhardt: Adam Nash from LinkedIn will be keynoting at &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphingsocial.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Graphing Social Patterns East&lt;/a&gt; next week in DC... hope to hear some news on their platform &amp; API then.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@dickhardt: Adam Nash from LinkedIn will be keynoting at <a href="http://graphingsocial.com" rel="nofollow">Graphing Social Patterns East</a> next week in DC&#8230; hope to hear some news on their platform &amp; API then.</p>
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		<title>By: Dick Hardt</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350951</link>
		<dc:creator>Dick Hardt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great move by Yahoo! to roll this out. Too bad they did not use OAuth.

Funny how LinkIn is using Yahoo&#039;s API to get data, but still has all our data locked up in LinkIn.com. When will LinkedIn&#039;s promised API be available?!?!?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great move by Yahoo! to roll this out. Too bad they did not use OAuth.</p>
<p>Funny how LinkIn is using Yahoo&#8217;s API to get data, but still has all our data locked up in LinkIn.com. When will LinkedIn&#8217;s promised API be available?!?!?</p>
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		<title>By: Charles Wu</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350835</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles Wu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To Jim M&#039;s comment about labels and printable address books, as Product Manager for the Yahoo! Address Book platform, just wanted to mention that Yahoo! does offer Printable Address book capability under the Options settings of the Yahoo! address book. We also create PDFs of mailing labels as well. Now does it satisfy everyone, probably not. 

However that&#039;s the kind of ideas that we hope developers will make, for instance custom printable address books using the data, such as printouts for different kinds of day planners so people will have paper and online versions of their data.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Jim M&#8217;s comment about labels and printable address books, as Product Manager for the Yahoo! Address Book platform, just wanted to mention that Yahoo! does offer Printable Address book capability under the Options settings of the Yahoo! address book. We also create PDFs of mailing labels as well. Now does it satisfy everyone, probably not. </p>
<p>However that&#8217;s the kind of ideas that we hope developers will make, for instance custom printable address books using the data, such as printouts for different kinds of day planners so people will have paper and online versions of their data.</p>
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		<title>By: Football Credit Card</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350755</link>
		<dc:creator>Football Credit Card</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think these big email service providers should introduce extra services that are found in facebook.  I love some of the applications found on facebook.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think these big email service providers should introduce extra services that are found in facebook.  I love some of the applications found on facebook.</p>
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		<title>By: Dale Larson</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350410</link>
		<dc:creator>Dale Larson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Even better when all these email contacts can also be linked with your cell phone address book and calling records.  TechCrunch posted about SkyDeck&#039;s service and opening their API last week...  my post: &lt;a href=&quot;Web 2.0 Your Cell Voice Records &quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web 2.0 Your Cell Voice Records&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even better when all these email contacts can also be linked with your cell phone address book and calling records.  TechCrunch posted about SkyDeck&#8217;s service and opening their API last week&#8230;  my post: <a href="Web 2.0 Your Cell Voice Records " rel="nofollow">Web 2.0 Your Cell Voice Records</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ted Rheingold</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350406</link>
		<dc:creator>Ted Rheingold</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a great move. It&#039;s a person&#039;s mail app, and Yahoo! is right to let them share access to it.

A feature not offered via the API that yahoo mail users would very much like to have is that ability to allow an approved internet service to auto-add that service&#039;s email to the approving user&#039;s yahoo mail address book.

This way when they join a join a new service that they expect to get emails from, they will get the emails instead of missing them because the aggressive yahoo spam algorithms misclassify it as spam.

If Yahoo really wants to show they believe the mail data is the users, not yahoo&#039;s they should go ahead and allow full user control of it.

But, the Y! mail API as it is, is a big step in the right direction. Round of applause.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a great move. It&#8217;s a person&#8217;s mail app, and Yahoo! is right to let them share access to it.</p>
<p>A feature not offered via the API that yahoo mail users would very much like to have is that ability to allow an approved internet service to auto-add that service&#8217;s email to the approving user&#8217;s yahoo mail address book.</p>
<p>This way when they join a join a new service that they expect to get emails from, they will get the emails instead of missing them because the aggressive yahoo spam algorithms misclassify it as spam.</p>
<p>If Yahoo really wants to show they believe the mail data is the users, not yahoo&#8217;s they should go ahead and allow full user control of it.</p>
<p>But, the Y! mail API as it is, is a big step in the right direction. Round of applause.</p>
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		<title>By: Ron</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350302</link>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mike, they don&#039;t have open API (Linked In that is).
They are using Yahoo&#039;s API for their own uses.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike, they don&#8217;t have open API (Linked In that is).<br />
They are using Yahoo&#8217;s API for their own uses.</p>
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		<title>By: sodapop</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2350290</link>
		<dc:creator>sodapop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish there a real person to talk to at Yahoo about obtaining some screen names that I previous signed up for, and one that I use for my 360 profile, but can&#039;t get a address for.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish there a real person to talk to at Yahoo about obtaining some screen names that I previous signed up for, and one that I use for my 360 profile, but can&#8217;t get a address for.</p>
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		<title>By: carlos</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349999</link>
		<dc:creator>carlos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the same that google did a few weeks ago with the Google Mail Contacts API
http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the same that google did a few weeks ago with the Google Mail Contacts API<br />
<a href="http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/'>http://code.goo.../apis/contacts/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349970</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t know LinkedIn made their API public. As far as I know, it was a closed API. Care to provide sources?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t know LinkedIn made their API public. As far as I know, it was a closed API. Care to provide sources?</p>
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		<title>By: Rakesh</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349960</link>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is not so good though. Just yesterday a chinese company/guys hacked my hotmail account, sent email to all my contacts, from me, promoting their product/site. It could be very embarrasing if they do so for porn or viruses. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo need to think more, think well before competing in this space.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is not so good though. Just yesterday a chinese company/guys hacked my hotmail account, sent email to all my contacts, from me, promoting their product/site. It could be very embarrasing if they do so for porn or viruses. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo need to think more, think well before competing in this space.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob V</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349889</link>
		<dc:creator>Rob V</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great!  Someone please develop a way to sync Yahoo! with other webmail address books, namely, Gmail, so that I (we) can keep my contacts on my iPhone synced with my Gmail account.  The only reason I (we) have a Yahoo! account is to keep these contacts on the web.  I (We) don&#039;t use Outlook, just Gmail.  Someone...anyone...please.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great!  Someone please develop a way to sync Yahoo! with other webmail address books, namely, Gmail, so that I (we) can keep my contacts on my iPhone synced with my Gmail account.  The only reason I (we) have a Yahoo! account is to keep these contacts on the web.  I (We) don&#8217;t use Outlook, just Gmail.  Someone&#8230;anyone&#8230;please.</p>
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		<title>By: dave mcclure</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349883</link>
		<dc:creator>dave mcclure</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>btw, this post was what stirred the conversation with mark on programmatic access to address book &amp; messaging data, using messaging frequency &amp; keyword relevance:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/05/memo-to-google.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Memo to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, &amp; AOL: How to Turn 500M email logins into Facebook Platform &amp; a Crapload of Revenue
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/05/memo-to-google.html&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

again, it&#039;s a fairly simple concept that would be pretty easy for any of the major email service providers (Goog, Yahoo, Msft, AOL) to offer.  ditto for Facebook, MySpace, other SNS platforms.  probably also other large platforms of note such as Amazon, eBay, Apple, a few others with &gt;50-100M users.

in particular since now Google, Yahoo, &amp; Microsoft all provide API access to contact data, should be relatively easy for them to enhance that slightly and use messaging data for better targeting.  only hard part there would be making it quick, but i&#039;m pretty sure at the very least Google should be able to make that happen.  (and Yahoo &amp; Microsoft would then likely race to compete as well).

imho, this is the SINGLE most important function / feature that the major platform providers can offer to make the rest of the web socially-enabled.  it&#039;s very simple, doesn&#039;t require a bunch of re-engineering, and would be quickly adopted by 3rd-party developers in websites in short order...

kudos &amp; kisses to whomever gets there first.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>btw, this post was what stirred the conversation with mark on programmatic access to address book &amp; messaging data, using messaging frequency &amp; keyword relevance:</p>
<p><a href="http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/05/memo-to-google.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Memo to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, &amp; AOL: How to Turn 500M email logins into Facebook Platform &amp; a Crapload of Revenue<br />
<a href="http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/05/memo-to-google.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/05/memo-to-google.html'>http://500hats....-to-google.html</a></b></a></p>
<p>again, it&#8217;s a fairly simple concept that would be pretty easy for any of the major email service providers (Goog, Yahoo, Msft, AOL) to offer.  ditto for Facebook, MySpace, other SNS platforms.  probably also other large platforms of note such as Amazon, eBay, Apple, a few others with &gt;50-100M users.</p>
<p>in particular since now Google, Yahoo, &amp; Microsoft all provide API access to contact data, should be relatively easy for them to enhance that slightly and use messaging data for better targeting.  only hard part there would be making it quick, but i&#8217;m pretty sure at the very least Google should be able to make that happen.  (and Yahoo &amp; Microsoft would then likely race to compete as well).</p>
<p>imho, this is the SINGLE most important function / feature that the major platform providers can offer to make the rest of the web socially-enabled.  it&#8217;s very simple, doesn&#8217;t require a bunch of re-engineering, and would be quickly adopted by 3rd-party developers in websites in short order&#8230;</p>
<p>kudos &amp; kisses to whomever gets there first.</p>
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		<title>By: Mish</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349857</link>
		<dc:creator>Mish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok, thanks for setting me straight!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok, thanks for setting me straight!</p>
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		<title>By: dave mcclure</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349833</link>
		<dc:creator>dave mcclure</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@mish: I think you&#039;re mishing the point (sorry couldnt resist ;)

Yahoo (or others) wouldn&#039;t be giving out your email info -- rather, they&#039;d be enabling 3rd-party services to let YOU use your *own* address &amp; message data programmatically to share/invite other users.  usage would still be authorized by the owner, and only available to the service provider &amp; others if you approve.

however by using keyword relevance &amp; messaging frequency as filters, you wouldn&#039;t have to upload or spam your entire address book, just the top 3-5 most relevant contacts you know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@mish: I think you&#8217;re mishing the point (sorry couldnt resist <img src='http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Yahoo (or others) wouldn&#8217;t be giving out your email info &#8212; rather, they&#8217;d be enabling 3rd-party services to let YOU use your *own* address &amp; message data programmatically to share/invite other users.  usage would still be authorized by the owner, and only available to the service provider &amp; others if you approve.</p>
<p>however by using keyword relevance &amp; messaging frequency as filters, you wouldn&#8217;t have to upload or spam your entire address book, just the top 3-5 most relevant contacts you know.</p>
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		<title>By: Mish</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349768</link>
		<dc:creator>Mish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;It would be very powerful if developers could not only retrieve basic contact information from webmail services like Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail, but could also determine the type of relationship a user has with those contacts. For example, if I wanted to pull out a user’s top 5 contacts, I could do so by looking at the frequency of messages sent to all contacts. This lookup could be refined by targeting only messages with certain keywords so that contacts belonging to particular categories (say, golf enthusiasts) could be identified by their messages.&quot;

I guess I&#039;m the only one, but I don&#039;t appreciate companies giving out the personal notes and info people have about me in their email address books (and correspondence potentially). Users include things like personal phone numbers, personal info, etc. I don&#039;t appreciate having it sold to some company so they can pester me.

It&#039;s really none of their business to go through our personal emails.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It would be very powerful if developers could not only retrieve basic contact information from webmail services like Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail, but could also determine the type of relationship a user has with those contacts. For example, if I wanted to pull out a user’s top 5 contacts, I could do so by looking at the frequency of messages sent to all contacts. This lookup could be refined by targeting only messages with certain keywords so that contacts belonging to particular categories (say, golf enthusiasts) could be identified by their messages.&#8221;</p>
<p>I guess I&#8217;m the only one, but I don&#8217;t appreciate companies giving out the personal notes and info people have about me in their email address books (and correspondence potentially). Users include things like personal phone numbers, personal info, etc. I don&#8217;t appreciate having it sold to some company so they can pester me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really none of their business to go through our personal emails.</p>
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		<title>By: Yahoo! Opens Address Books; Plaxo and LinkedIn Already Live &#171; The Real McCrea</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349752</link>
		<dc:creator>Yahoo! Opens Address Books; Plaxo and LinkedIn Already Live &#171; The Real McCrea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] here&#8217;s coverage from TechCrunch&#8217;s Mark Hendrickson and from CNET&#8217;s Stephen [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] here&#8217;s coverage from TechCrunch&#8217;s Mark Hendrickson and from CNET&#8217;s Stephen [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jim M</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349746</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seriously, so they aren&#039;t going to add any features to address book so they&#039;re just going to open it up....Well, whoever makes a great printable address book or the ability to print labels will get my business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously, so they aren&#8217;t going to add any features to address book so they&#8217;re just going to open it up&#8230;.Well, whoever makes a great printable address book or the ability to print labels will get my business.</p>
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		<title>By: james</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349731</link>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If this is anything like searchmonkey it&#039;s going to be useless.  I was at the searchmonkey event. One developer put it best. &quot;I know why it&#039;s called searchmonkey. because they are using us as their monkey.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If this is anything like searchmonkey it&#8217;s going to be useless.  I was at the searchmonkey event. One developer put it best. &#8220;I know why it&#8217;s called searchmonkey. because they are using us as their monkey.</p>
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		<title>By: YDRIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/04/yahoo-opens-address-books-to-3rd-party-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-2349729</link>
		<dc:creator>YDRIVE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice!</p>
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