We’ve added a new feature that lets members connect to their address book in order to quickly search a network for people they already know or to find people to invite. You may already be familiar with our Facebook friend suggest feature. This is similar, except now we’ve extended it to CSV or vCard address book files, LinkedIn, GMail, Yahoo mail, and Hotmail.

There are two halves to this. One is friend suggest, letting you know right away who you already know in the network. In a big network, especially for an event, we want to make sure you don’t miss out on a chance to put a face to someone you’ve only emailed with or to setup meetings with old friends or colleagues.

The second half is friend invite. If you’re enjoying a network, chances are you know lots of other people who will enjoy it also. Friend invite makes the invitation process simple. We have this feature turned off by default for conferences.

We’re also very aware of other services that have abused address book imports in order to send spam. We try to make our policy very clear, so that you and your members know what to expect.

Tags: address book, features, friend suggest, invite

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