![]() Instead, I had to make a duplicate, simplified contact card for myself, and set that one as “Me.” Cobook’s system is more straightforward. That’s a bit different from Addappt, which shared my “Me” card, without first letting me select the fields which I wanted to keep private. The sharing is explicit, he adds, and you control your own Livecard containing the information you want to publicize. “The only thing that needs to be synced through our servers is your Livecard,” he explains. He also confirms that the startup does not upload your address book data to its centralized servers. Of course, this sharing process also serves as a nice viral way for Cobook to gain some traction through users’ friend networks, too.Ĭurrently, this messaging and friend-finding functionality only works via Facebook, but Cobook’s founder and CEO Kaspars Dancis says that email registration will arrive shortly. You’ll tap a button, fill out the info you want included on your own Livecard (name, company, email and phone), select the friends you want to share with, and then send them a message which they can either confirm or ignore. After updating Cobook on iPhone (or upon first install for new users), it will prompt you to “Connect Livecards” when you launch the app. In that regard, Cobook is not much different.įor what it’s worth, at least the solution Cobook has implemented to fix the problem is relatively simple. However, the problem with many of today’s solutions is that they work best when everyone uses the same platform. ![]() For example, late last year a company called Addappt launched a similar app to Cobook, also with a heavy focus on the auto-updating functionality. Google is doing this in its own way now, but via Google+, which is not for everyone.Īnd as innovation in the address book space has stagnated among the big players, that’s left room for startups to come in and try to fix the problem. An automatically updating address book is something that our email providers should have implemented for us ages ago. It’s bizarre that in this day and age, we’re still struggling with a feature that should be so simple. Cobook, a Mac contact management app that made its way over to the iPhone back in December, is today launching version 2.0 of its service which introduces a new feature called “Livecards.” This feature does what everyone wants address books to do these days – automatically update their contacts with the most current information.
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