WASHINGTON POST -- July 10 -- Facebook, LinkedIn and some other sites now allow
a handful of third parties to extract their users' data and use it
elsewhere. These initiatives could lead to the ideal address book that updates
itself -- no more bounced e-mail messages, no more returned-to-sender
greeting cards. For now, though, the best you can get is a free plug-in for Outlook called Xobni. In addition to its core job of analyzing e-mail
archives to piece together the patterns of your social network, Xobni
-- "inbox" spelled backward -- two weeks ago added the ability to
connect to LinkedIn. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST