Product design of Address book based on cloud computing

The Address Book is a way to record the contact of a user, address and other information services, as a real-name social network, based on the address book, can be derived from a number of popular Internet applications, such as instant messaging, mail, social networking and so on, as well as a number of local applications, such as the user's computer outlook, mobile phone address.

With the rapid development of information society, the contact between people is more and more frequent, communication ways more and more diverse, how to ensure the relationship with friends, classmates, colleagues, leaders, relatives and so on, and can easily and quickly find, record, modify the relevant communications information, Manual methods alone have been unable to meet the need to manage an ever-expanding directory.

Address Book product market status

At present, there are many products with the address book, including the Pure Address Book products (PLAXO), social networking site with the contacts (Renren, Sina Weibo, etc.), instant Messaging with the address book (such as QQ, MSN), mail with the address Book (Gmail, NetEase mailbox), Personal Computer Address Book (Outlook newsletter), mobile phone Address Book (Application of the Spark Address Book), Address Book value-added services (Kik, micro-letter), and so on, each social product has its own address book, most of them are unrelated, a large number of contacts lead to the user management Address book more and more, Each address book data is not synchronized, resulting in user maintenance Address book become a nightmare.

How to solve the current directory management confusion? Similar situation we have encountered before, is a humanistic document management problem. Many people work with a computer, home with a computer, business trip with a laptop, how to sync and update their working documents in different computers is a very difficult problem, earlier people in order to sync files, usually to use U disk to copy and paste files, very troublesome, version management confusion, it is easy to make mistakes, Finally, the cloud storage Synchronization service, led by Dropbox, appears, users can use Dropbox to achieve automatic synchronization and update of files on multiple computers, automate all of these updates and versioning operations, file synchronization and updates between several computers are automatically completed, and every day the computer automatically downloads the latest version of the document, After any computer updates the document, it will automatically upload to the cloud storage server side, then sync to other computers, so that through the tool to solve the problem of multiple computer synchronization documents.

Since Dropbox can successfully manage file synchronization for multiple computers, so for the address book, we can also through the cloud computing method, the user spread in each terminal (computer, mailbox, mobile phone, etc.) of the Address Book organically integrated together, convenient, fast, flexible management of individuals, companies and related personnel communication information To learn the latest contact methods for your contacts.

The following is the Moonlight blog conceived a new cloud storage services, the service is similar to Dropbox, but with the Address book as the core, through a so-called "cloud Address book" To synchronize and manage all user address book information.

The characteristics of the cloud Address Book

Cloud Address Book is based on cloud computing Address Book products, as a basic service, with the following characteristics:

1 based on cloud storage, cloud computing.

2 can achieve multiple platform synchronization (such as Outlook, Gmail contacts, other mail contacts, mobile Address Book, Renren friends, happy Net friends, etc.).

3 automatic backup, data security is guaranteed, the user's contact will not be lost.

4 Establish a Relationship network (users can contact the Address Book members, confirmed after the two sides are friends).

5 social contacts, the user's contact information changes are automatically maintained by the contact, contact changes to the contact information can be automatically updated to all friends of the Address book.

6 Integration of mail, SMS, instant Messaging functions.

7 The use of vcard standard Exchange Address Book data.

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