Piins Contact API - The data is the users'

We just don't agree that platforms have the right to claim possession over user data in terms of completely restricting them from accessing/deleting/editing all their data in the most efficient way. CAVEAT: "most efficient" does definitely not refer to the way some platforms (we don't want to point with fingers here) define "efficient", i.e. only via their own platform.

They might do a nice job to convince themselves that they are the best, and market valuation might suggest that they are, but all the data there is still the users'. We'd even go that far to say, that not only the direct data, but also all the inferred one is the users', although you can probably argue about that, so we'll cover that in another posting :)

Anyways, as part of our movement to make all data as accessible to their respective users, being extremely aware of privacy and data protection standards, we've released our little contact-import and message sending API.

If you are interested contact us anytime, we're happy to discuss how you can help users to access all their data as easily as possible (well at least, as our little Piin-brains can do, if we piin down the time :). We want to speak to you first to assure, that you are not going to misuse the API in any malicious or harmful way.

The link for the API is for testing only. WE DO NOT STORE ANY OF YOUR CONTACTS, NEITHER DO WE SPAM THEM. We hate spam ourselves and if we had a little bit more time, we'd be working on a giant fight-spam-forever project! This is why we disabled message sending via the Outlook upload as well. You will still be able to see the imported contacts directly after import from your Outlook CSV file, but not be able to send them messages.

P.S.: If your are interested in an internationalization library for PHP, we've developed one for Smarty in PHP. A tutorial for this library can be found here. We're planning to release many more APIs for the open source community and the startup community, so stay tuned with our blog.