Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

re: Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

Alex van Herwijnen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:17:02 GMT

Nice to see big companies implementing things like this, it's great. I wonder if they took a look at the code I wrote a little while ago :)

This should help them grow engagement

Chris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:46:03 GMT

I agree that taking advantage of the API should allow them to increase engagement on their site since right now for as much hype and as many users as they have, they pale in actual usage (minutes, PV) in comparison to other photo sites like Photobucket and Facebook Photos. Looks interesting.

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davidacoder — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:07:16 GMT

I think this whole approach will lead to many, many, many hacked Windows Live ID accounts. If you guys seriously believe that average users will be able to follow the rule "only type in your credentials on login.live.com" your are just naive. AND your own uber-security guy Kim Cameron is telling that very story to the world for years already. I wouldn't mind so much if a Live ID was a low-value asset, but you bring people to associate some of their most valuable assets with it (email, calendar, contacts). I find the whole approach irresponsible. I just hope that at some point, if someone looses his credentials this way, he will sue you and present Kim Cameron's blog as evidence that you were perfectly aware in what danger you bring your users. And to make a long story short, I think the Live ID team should fix the phising problem first (i.e. implement managed infocards), before they come up with new delegation stuff etc that will just lead to more attack surface. Very bad planning.

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alogan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:27:21 GMT

Alex - perhaps they did - your PHP implementation of my test harness is way cool.

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alogan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:01:35 GMT

Hi davidacoder - Thanks for your comment!

Neel from the Windows Live ID team has posted re. Live ID & Phishing.

Check it out here : http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2008/04/08/post-by-live-id-gm-re-phishing-responding-to-davidacoder-s-comment-on-my-blog.aspx

-Angus

re: Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

davidacoder — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:18:13 GMT

Wow, thanks for generating all that attention to this! I'll have a read and reply on the other post you have!

Angus Logan's Blog : Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

247Blogging — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:55:12 GMT

The Flickr friend finder just got some coverage on ReadWriteWeb ( my comment ). Like anything, sharing photos is more fun with friends. I&#8217;m a huge fan of Flickr , I think their product is really impressive (it is different to Spaces Photos give

re: Flickr implements the Windows Live Contacts API in their Friend Finder

Abishek Kumar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:07:31 GMT

Hi Angus,

I have gone through your code for Importing windows live contacts.

I want to know how to retrieve large bulks of contacts from hotmail. If I have some 5000 contacts, it will be slow, so if I need to retrieve only some 200 contacts at a time is that possible using window live contact api.

Please do let me know if you have any idea about this.

thanks

abishek

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Dave Hybrid — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:03:14 GMT

Great post, really helped me understand, thanks!

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Computer Help — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:57:47 GMT

Really great information, has given me an idea for a blog of my friends.

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MSN Plus — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:11:43 GMT

The think is this just doesn't really do it for me, prefer something a little less... mainstream.

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Edwin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:20:49 GMT

I really like the idea of combining several social networks into one. Hoping for another thing like this in the future.

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Intel Burn Test — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:16:36 GMT

I really like the idea of combining several concepts into one. Hoping for more like this in the future.

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vista for experts — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:22:21 GMT

Great news, thanks for the post!

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Cheap Phone Deals — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:46:21 GMT

This is the best thing for flickr.