Hello Web 2.0!
One of the projects I’ve been working on at Plaxo has been a little Web 2.0 widget called Plaxo Address Book Access and we released it late last week!
Basically, if you ever need a user to type in e-mail addresses for any reason, we’ve got the answer for you. Now with in a few minutes, you can allow users on your site to import e-mail addresses from MSN/Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail, Outlook, or Outlook Express. Then, it’s displayed in a list where users can choose which e-mail addresses they want to populate in your form and viola - contact import from webmail for almost 0 work!
Here’s what it looks like: first, users get to choose where they keep their contacts
Then, they login like they usually do
Finally, they get to choose which contacts they want to grab (usually the e-mail addresses are filled into the right side, but I’ve removed them in Photoshop)
Super cool huh? You’ll never have to write a screen scraper for Hotmail or Yahoo again! If you have questions, let me know 
January 30th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Thunderbird is considered “other” then?
January 30th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Now when will I be able to synchronize my Gmail address book with Plaxo?
January 30th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I think that the only reason Outlook/OE is there is because of an ActiveX plugin that enables that integration. For the case of T-bird or Apple Address Book, you would upload your contacts via vcard (in “Other”).
The other way is to sync your T-bird contacts with Plaxo using the T-bird Plaxo client or the Mac client and just click on Plaxo.
Hmm, there’s no Mac client? Grrr…
January 31st, 2006 at 4:11 pm
must….not…comment…on…this…screenshot… MUST….NOT…COMMENT… ARRGGLLLL!!!!!
January 31st, 2006 at 8:06 pm
I’m no tech expert, but something makes me uncomfortable signing into a password protected site like my Gmail account while I’ve got another website’s URL in the upper left address bar. Is this something we really want people to get used to doing? It seems like a phisher’s dream come true. That concern aside, it looks like a great tool.
April 17th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Hi, i would like to know if i could have the screens on spanish