Self Updating Contacts
Yahoo today announced a cool new feature . If you have a contact in your Yahoo contact list, and that person is also a Yahoo user, and moves, when they update their contact information, the data you have for them in your contact item for them, is updated automatically. Of course, they have to choose to share that information for you. This begins to solve a long standing problem. A few years ago I discussed doing a gratis programming project for the private school my son was then attending. We were going to come up with a online page for each Family that had kids at the school. The parents would be able to keep the information updated on their own. The school administration would be able to see the information. Additionally, we were thinking of features so parents could share contact information with other parents to make it easier to build the community aspects of the small school. Alas, we never went forward with it. It could have...