Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail email inviting a la Facebook and Myspace. Anyone know how?

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I’m looking to build a function into my new social network in which new users can invite their friends to the network via gmail/yahoo/hotmail importer like Myspace and Facebook do. I have looked around for a solution but have only found this: http://www.getmycontacts.com//index.htm

Does anyone know how or if there are better services?

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Thank you.

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I don’t specifically know, I’d start here: http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/

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Ah okay, thank you. Do you know how to with gmail specifically? I appreciate the input.

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Basically you’d have to go to each email provider and find their API which allows you to access their contact list. It’s different for each provider.