Contact list management should be better
I want something that intelligently cleans out my contact list. Last night I was having dinner with my best friend, Laurent. We both just got new iPhones and were comparing apps. I pull up his address book and notice that it takes FOREVER to load. Turns out, he’s got 6000 contacts. Wow, I thought I had a lot with over 800.
The point, though, is that I know I don’t regularly communicate with 75% of those people. In fact, I bet that I will NEVER contact close to 50% of those people. The people that I regularly talk to probably make up about 5%. I’d love to clear out my address book. But it’s a chore, and, like all digital data, I’d hate to delete something just to figure out I really need it 6 months later. I want to archive it, and I want to do this automatically and intelligently.
What I want is something like Xobni for my telephone contacts. In fact, I want a service that analyses all of my outgoing communications (AIM, email, and telephone) and shows me how my personal network works. Then I want it to optimize my contact lists so that I don’t have to scroll through 800 contacts to find my friend’s number. It would be really easy to create an iPhone app that does something like this….
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on July 17, 2008 at 12:21 pm Dan wrote:
Hi Lorenz,
We hear you! We’re providing a service (currently in private beta) that uses the details of your cell phone calls and texts to prioritize your address book, show you the strength of your relationships, and help you build a more informed (and implicit) social network.
Take a look at skydeck.com. Then if you’d like to give us a try, write to us and we’ll send you an invite.
Thanks, Dan