Is there a way to import MSN messenger/Yahoo messenger/AOL messenger into a universal address book.

Question

Is there a way to import MSN messenger/Yahoo messenger/AOL messenger into a universal address book.  I was asked by my management to find out how some of the other sites have implemented this functionality.

Answer 1

Behind the Windows Live services (Messenger, Mail, Spaces, etc.) there is a shared contact list (aka a universal address list).  That address list can be used programmatically by other applications through the Windows Live contacts gadget.    This may be what you're looking for. 

Cheers,
Todd Biggs, Windows Live

Answer 2

SANU wrote:

Is there a way to import MSN messenger/Yahoo messenger/AOL messenger into a universal address book.  I was asked by my management to find out how some of the other sites have implemented this functionality.

It seen GAIM can work like your saying.

 

Answer 3

yes use a programme called Adium, you can import all of your contacts from all of the major messenger 

messenger services available.com

Answer 4

Hi,

We have a website developed in asp.net 2.0, c#, sql server 2005.  I need to provide users with a way to import their address books from gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and aol at the least.

I searched the net, and found soooo many solutions, most providing code to be integrated with our code, some providing web sites that would do the conversion.  Ideally I'd like to connect to some sort of a service where we would provide the service the user's email and password, and would get back a comma separated list of address info from their address books.  The solutions on the net cost anywhere from $0-$500, and I could not find any rating as to how well the solution would work.  So its hard to go with any of them, and know that they'll work well now, and continue to work in the long term, as in they'll keep adding more facilities to import from, continue to support any changes needed to current solution such as when gmail changes their address book format...

Any recommendations will be appreciated.

Thanks.
Shefali

Answer 5

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