I’ve mentioned the Portable Contacts (PoCo) project a few times in the past — it’s the group that is trying to do for contact lists what OpenID is doing for identity, allowing you to use a single contact list across the Web.
That’s been growing steadily in recent months, with a lot of small players and several mid-level ones picking up on it. And as of yesterday, it’s gained another significant supporter: Google Contacts has begun to support PoCo. This means that any PoCo-enabled app can now make use of contact lists from Google, if you give it permission to do so.
No, it’s not Facebook — if that ever happens, you’ll know that PoCo has well and truly won as a standard. (Nor is it LJ, which matters most to a number of my readers here.) But it’s a fine step in the right direction, moving from social-network “walled gardens” to a more open and consistent infrastructure…
