Wednesday, June 4, 2008
It wasn't too long ago I was writing about the Yahoo webtop. Well, now they're putting themselves out there for 3rd party developers in regards to their address book capabilities.Yahoo is releasing an Address Book API today that will give 3rd-party developers access Yahoo users' contact lists without the traditional, but primitive, method of page scraping.
Chris Yeh, the head of the Yahoo developer network, considers this release the second major "proof point" of Yahoo's Open Services (YOS) campaign, which kicked off at the Web 2.0 Expo in March.
"With Yahoo! Address Book, individuals not only have the ability to update, access and store their contact information from anywhere in the world, but they can also take advantage of value-added services integrated into Yahoo! Address Book, such as Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Mail."
Say it with me, YA-HOOOOOOOO!
Labels: open source, yahoo
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