July 18, 2003
Panther Address Book helps social networking
I am thrilled to hear that by the end of this year when Mac OS X Panther is released, I will be able to note connections between my contacts in my address book. The screenshot I saw showed fields for friends and assistants. It tells me who people know (at least who they know that I know they know). The new Address book will also have a Scripts menu which will hopefully spawn the writing of lots of AppleScripts to extract value out of the Address book.
Even though I'm no AppleScript programmer, if someone else doesn't do it, I will undertake to write a script that will quickly find all the address book records named in the friends field of a particular record or group of records. That would be step one... I'm hoping that some AppleScript geek will seek to chart the relationships in a scriptable drawing program like Omnigraffle after that. I would very much like to see such a chart of my own address book once these fields are filled in. [via Interconnected, write-up and screenshot at MacMegasite]
Posted by tokerud at July 18, 2003 08:33 PM