The goal of Portable Contacts is to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web.

The protocol is a combination of OAuth, XRDS-Simple and a wire-format based on vCard harmonized with schema from OpenSocial.

Helpful resources

• Portable Contacts home page
• Latest draft spec
• Portable Contacts test harness
• Plaxo's API endpoint (supports OAuth and HTTP Basic)
• Portable Contacts spec and code repository

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• Plaxo's XRDS-Simple doc
• vCard to Portable Contacts converter (Plaxo)
• hCard to vCard converter

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• OAuth spec
• OAuth code

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• XRDS-Simple spec
• XRDS-Simple code

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• OpenSocial RESTful API
• OpenSocial code (shindig)
• partuza (sample OpenSocial container built on shindig-php that is a compliant Portable Contacts Provider)
• jPoco (Java Portable Contacts consumer library, used for Android app)

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• Software/Services using Portable Contacts (add yours)
• Portable Contacts at Plaxo
• Media coverage 

Upcoming Events

• None 

Previous Events

• Internet Identity Workshop - May 18-20, 2009 at Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
• Internet Identity Workshop - Nov 10, 2008-12 at Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
• Portable Contacts Summit - Sep 11, 2008 10am-5pm at MySpace, 625 2nd Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107
• Yahoo! Hack Day - Sep 12-13 at Yahoo!, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California CA
• Portable Contacts Hackathon - Sep 10, 2008 6pm-10pm at Six Apart, 548 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94107