Flickr added a find friends feature that checks Yahoo, Google and MSN contacts. A really interesting first start. Very cool feature is that it looks like they use OAuth because I granted MSN only a 1 days access to flickr data.
It didn't find too many missing friends though.
1. Most of my contacts are in Outlook, Facebook, twitter. I don't use those 3 online email services. They really need to add Outlook and a bunch of the social network services.
2. Most of my friends on my Yahoo or MSN IM list are using different email address on those systems, so I spent a silly amount of time checking for dups.
3. It doesn't work with Yahoo lists, for example our vancouvertwins Yahoo list. Yet again, one yahoo property doesn't integrate with another.
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