Invitation software for social networking platform

3 pointsby pkkim13vor 17 Jahren2 comments

We're looking for specific functionality in our social networking website. When users sign up, we want to offer checking their google, yahoo, hotmail address book for a) users currently in the system b) automatically connect with friends currently in the system c) send invitations to those not in the system to join. Can you give a recommendation for how to add this functionality? (prefer to outsource rather than build in house)

Thanks in advance.

1 comments

grahamrvor 17 Jahren

Free: http://openinviter.com/

Paid: http://www.octazen.com/ http://addressbookimport.com http://www.improsys.com/importer.htm

Most of these have the best support for PHP which may or may not work for your needs. Various free libraries have been released for other languages but 1) generally support only a few email providers and 2) may not be actively maintained. Octazen has a fee-based API which sounds great but I haven't used it.

pkkim13vor 17 Jahren

thanks for the response. looks like octazen is the winner