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bookmarks and browsing history with project Weave ( For FireFox)
2008-03-06 06:53:00
Mozilla's exciting new add-on to Mozilla's popular browser Firefox called Weave in its infancy, the service plans to be a way for users to save and access their personal browsing information across multiple machines. It's a little bit like google web history, and a Web password saver all wrapped up into one. Some use cases for Weave include: accessing your history and bookmarks from your home version of Firefox on your mobile Firefox browser, shared/collaborative bookmarking, and personalization tools to let you log in and sync up your home bookmarks, plug-ins and passwords on another machine; all things that are typically a pain unless you're technically proficient or know how to plan ahead. Weave version0.1 , which Mozilla's Labs team rolled out a few weeks back, lays the foundation for Web developers to add Weave integration into their services. It's limited to some very basic back-end tools for developers, although version 0.2 which is planned ...
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Google Contacts API Released
2008-03-05 22:50:00
Google just released a Contacts API as part of their existing GData feeds framework. According to Google - with this API, your app can get a list of a user’s contacts, edit and delete info in existing contacts, and search in an existing contact. Contacts are shared among Google apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader and more. As one use-case, Google says this API allows web developers to import a user’s Google contacts into their apps, as well as export their app’s contacts into Google. Google watcher Ionut Alex. Chitu writes, "Hopefully, social applications will use this API instead of asking for your Gmail credentials and we’ll see synchronization utilities for mobile devices, Outlook etc." He adds a caveat: "The problem is that your Google contacts aren’t always your contacts: they’re mostly a bunch of people automatically added by Gmail because you replied to their messages."
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