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Re:Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ ... by pavel_lishin on Saturday June 20, 2009 @02:02AM (#666189)
I work for a web dev firm, and one of the features a client wants is a facebook-style "invite your friends by giving us your e-mail and password" feature. I'm trying to think of a nice way of convincing the client that the feature they want is really a psychological bug that's going to cause long-term problems for, well, everyone on the internet.
Re:Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ ... by makeee on Saturday June 20, 2009 @02:39AM (#666207)
Why not use bbauth? I know Yahoo and Google support it. That way you can grab their email contacts without requiring them to give you their email/password. It just sends them to the email provider to login, then back to your site with the api token to access their address book.
Re:Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ ... by gaius on Saturday June 20, 2009 @06:34AM (#666327)
Still spams a buncha folks tho'.