Easier Gmail contact import, without passwords
For a long time we’ve been offering an easy way to find your friends and colleagues on Dopplr by automatically importing your Gmail contact list. We love this feature and find it very useful ourselves, but we’ve been uncomfortable with having to ask for your Gmail password as part of the process.
As of this month it’s no longer necessary to disclose your password to make the Gmail connection, as Google have recently launched a password-free contacts API. I’m happy to announce that we’ve upgraded our system to use it.
kudos Dopplr, kudos!
It will b amazing….can’t believe it…account without p/w.
[…] released a Contacts API that is already used by dopplr and seems to work. I think I’ll have to re-think syncing my Google Contacts with Address book […]
Pretty pretty please …
put a link to these options or the overview of these options like twitter /gmail import to manage connections. that is where it belongs.
inviting friends as a menue is not importing - just calling it invites makes people miss it all the time.
everytime i look for these options i end up scanning the blog because i vaguely remember that there was a posting about it! :(
“As of this month it’s no longer necessary to disclose your password to make the Gmail connection, as Google have recently launched a password-free contacts API. I’m happy to announce that we’ve upgrade our system to use it.”
Yes - KUDOS! If only more companies would continue thinking about removing barriers…
[…] and question mark: I just saw Dopplr announced GMail password-free import back in March, before Matt’s tweet. Did Dopplr do it before Flickr? Then, what was the tweet about? […]