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Hey guys, founder of Everyme here. As for why this is different than a contact list, imagine if your address book was kept accurate and up-to-date magically. If

Hey guys, founder of Everyme here. As for why this is different than a contact list, imagine if your address book was kept accurate and up-to-date magically. If a friend changes their phone number, why should your address book get out of date? Couple that with having everything about your contacts at your fingertips (posts, messages, profiles), awesome automatic grouping, syncing to everywhere, and you have a completely new address book.

AndrewWarner 15y ago
Glad you're tackling this. I stopped adding contacts to my iPhone because keeping them up to date became too much work. Now I just search Gmail when I need a phone number or address. That's a hassle too, but at least I know the info is up to date.
- zzzmarcus 15y ago
  You can sync your iPhone contacts with Gmail and save new contacts you add on your phone directly to Gmail if you add the account as an Exchange account on the phone.
biot 15y ago
One comment on your home page. When clicked on the link to learn about this new address book concept, the page loaded and I saw: "The address book is broken, and we are going to fix it." I almost hit the back button, thinking that the site was down.
- olivercameron 15y ago
  Thanks, good point, I'll change that.
TuaAmin13 15y ago
Does this magic voodoo work with people who aren't using this service (or if it doesn't right now, will it)? If it does, I'm sold.
pyre 15y ago
What kind of support will this service have? Web-only? iPhone-only? I would sign up for the private beta, but without an iPhone, is it worth my while?
- olivercameron 15y ago
  Both at launch, shortly followed by Android support.
amirmc 15y ago
This sounds really interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing what you've got. Had several conversations with people about contact management and address books in the past and I expect you've had similar discussions. I'm curious to know your opinions. One of the discussions I had revolved around ownership of data and there were basically two points of view, both perfectly valid. The first PoV was that an owner/curator sees the address book as theirs and if they add someone's details to it, those details should remain until the owner/curator decides to remove them. The second PoV was that someone should be able to 'grant access' to their contact info and if either party decides to break the connection, the contact info should disappear from both address books. I'm firmly in the former camp since I don't like the idea of my address book becoming a volatile place (esp. since I have over 2k+ people in there). However, I can see the argument for having more control over who has my contact info. I'm curious to know what approach you (and Everyme) has taken and what you think of the points above. Am I off the mark?
- olivercameron 15y ago
  I'm leaning very much towards everyone owning their own data. If someone doesn't want you to have their phone number, but you already know it, I don't think it's fair that the number should be deleted. As Everyme syncs everywhere, deleting any type of info would be very, very bad.
davetong 15y ago
Hi Oliver, Thanks for participating in this thread. Just out of curiosity, how will your service differentiate from iCloud for Apple users?
- olivercameron 15y ago
  iCloud is basically just for syncing your contacts that you manually created. We actually use iCloud to make syncing everywhere possible. For example, if a person changes their phone number, that gets pushed to Everyme, which then is pushed to iCloud. As such, all of your devices now have the up-to-date info.

AndrewWarner 15y ago

Glad you're tackling this. I stopped adding contacts to my iPhone because keeping them up to date became too much work. Now I just search Gmail when I need a phone number or address. That's a hassle too, but at least I know the info is up to date.

zzzmarcus 15y ago
You can sync your iPhone contacts with Gmail and save new contacts you add on your phone directly to Gmail if you add the account as an Exchange account on the phone.

biot 15y ago

One comment on your home page. When clicked on the link to learn about this new address book concept, the page loaded and I saw: "The address book is broken, and we are going to fix it." I almost hit the back button, thinking that the site was down.

olivercameron 15y ago
Thanks, good point, I'll change that.

TuaAmin13 15y ago

Does this magic voodoo work with people who aren't using this service (or if it doesn't right now, will it)? If it does, I'm sold.

pyre 15y ago

What kind of support will this service have? Web-only? iPhone-only? I would sign up for the private beta, but without an iPhone, is it worth my while?

olivercameron 15y ago
Both at launch, shortly followed by Android support.

amirmc 15y ago

This sounds really interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing what you've got. Had several conversations with people about contact management and address books in the past and I expect you've had similar discussions. I'm curious to know your opinions. One of the discussions I had revolved around ownership of data and there were basically two points of view, both perfectly valid. The first PoV was that an owner/curator sees the address book as theirs and if they add someone's details to it, those details should remain until the owner/curator decides to remove them. The second PoV was that someone should be able to 'grant access' to their contact info and if either party decides to break the connection, the contact info should disappear from both address books. I'm firmly in the former camp since I don't like the idea of my address book becoming a volatile place (esp. since I have over 2k+ people in there). However, I can see the argument for having more control over who has my contact info. I'm curious to know what approach you (and Everyme) has taken and what you think of the points above. Am I off the mark?

olivercameron 15y ago
I'm leaning very much towards everyone owning their own data. If someone doesn't want you to have their phone number, but you already know it, I don't think it's fair that the number should be deleted. As Everyme syncs everywhere, deleting any type of info would be very, very bad.

davetong 15y ago

Hi Oliver, Thanks for participating in this thread. Just out of curiosity, how will your service differentiate from iCloud for Apple users?

olivercameron 15y ago
iCloud is basically just for syncing your contacts that you manually created. We actually use iCloud to make syncing everywhere possible. For example, if a person changes their phone number, that gets pushed to Everyme, which then is pushed to iCloud. As such, all of your devices now have the up-to-date info.