Companies such as Plaxo, which help to synchronise address books, and Google itself, which has a primitive address book in its web-mail service, plan to turn these books into fully fledged social graphs that can do useful and productive things, perhaps including new variants of mini-feeds.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
For its part, Google's kicking in not just the operating system, but also an Internet browser designed for mobility (adapted from Apple's Webkit), a calendar, an address book, maps, e-mail and access to Google's online payments system, which can be used to buy things via phones.
Now Facebook, Apple, Google and smaller app developers are collecting nuanced details like location data and address-book info, and across a wider breadth of people (more than a billion in the case of Facebook).
That gives both Microsoft and Apple plenty of time to figure out the details of making Entourage compatible with other Apple applications, iCal--a personal calendar program, its Address Book application and even iSync, which is designed to let the Mac synchronize information between the desktop and several types of mobile devices.
Once you downloaded Plaxo, the program would mine your address book and e-mail every contact with a message, coaxing them to sign up for the service.
Plaxo was Parker's first attempt at creating a real company--an online service that aimed to keep your address book up to date.
Some suggestions: looking at state records--Jones had updated his driver's license and voter registration address--searching the phone book or the Internet, ordering a credit check or posting a notice on the property.
Melissa sends e-mail messages to the first 50 addresses of a user's Microsoft Outlook address book, potentially "swamping" a company's server, Hernan said.
And if you're into Bluetooth, the Address Book application can use the wireless technology to display the caller-ID information from a Bluetooth-ready wireless phone, provided you also have a Bluetooth device attached to your computer.
It's also a high-quality phone, including a speakerphone, and it's tightly integrated with the address book.
"It will infect your computer and then choose a different name from your address book to send itself on to your contacts, " said Graham Cluley from anti-virus firm Sophos.
The Smartphone will sport the usual PDA features, like an address book that takes up to 2, 000 entries, and will also come equipped with a built-in speakerphone and e-mail retrieval by voice command.
She speaks with a thick accent and disarming warmth that at first seem at odds with her polished coiffure and star-studded address book.
Its speediness results from its ability to trigger the recipient's e-mail program to send a copy of itself to everyone listed in the program's address book.
Two years later his address book service, Plaxo, demonstrated the potency of digital propagation, something he took a step further as the 24-year-old president of Facebook, helping the social network become the most important Internet company since, well, maybe ever.
If you are one of them then you can get the inside scoop about what is coming into your inbox with Smartr inbox from Xobni - a browser plug-in that looks at your email and social contacts to build a profile for everyone in your address book.
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