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Posted by fashion on December 17, 2007 at 3:10am

Just require a small help. I have seen many social networking sites like linkedin.com ask you to invite your friends to join and they just need you to login to google, yahoo or msn through a small box on their site. When you login an email is automatically sent to all your address book members inviting them to join. How does this work ?

Is there any module or api integration available for drupal social networking sites.

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We used third party software for ifood.tv

Posted by ifood on December 17, 2007 at 4:02am
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We used a third party software to do this, which is avaiable for like $50. However integrating that software with Drupal was a challenge. It works on our site ifood.tv but I would also be interested in learning better ways to do it.

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Posted by tommyboy1 on February 14, 2008 at 12:17am
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Is the ifood.tv code available for open source projects?

Oh recently, they have

Posted by Foodster on December 17, 2007 at 4:14am
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Oh recently, they have launched a new module called Drupal Contact List Importer, which does what you have mentioned. http://drupal.org/project/dcl_importer

Drupal Contact List Importer is used to import the contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, and MSN Messenger Contacts.
Currently its working with the invite module where the grabbed emails being thrown into 'invite' and invite in its turn will complete the invitation process.
This will be converted into a stand alone module "a global address book importer" for other modules to use this functionality but currently it will work together with invite.

Thanks buddy. I will check

Posted by fashion on December 17, 2007 at 12:21pm
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Thanks buddy. I will check that out.

Meanwhile, it would be interesting to know how actually is it done ? I mean is there any Google API etc. or what ?

Plaxo Widget

Posted by ArunK on January 4, 2008 at 5:15am
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I've seen some sites use this widget from Plaxo, http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget. I am planning on use it for some sites I am working on, if not the contact list importer module.

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