Accounts

adx supports various online accounts for each contact. This will be shown mostly as bookmark link (e.g. to twitter) or as direct interaction link (e.g. for Skype).

Example

addressbook.xml:

<contact>
  <forename>Thomas</forename>
  <surname>Bartensud</surname>
  ...
  <account type="twitter">bartensud</account>
  <account type="facebook">bartensud</account>
  <account type="last.fm">Bartensud</account>
  <account type="Skype">bartensud</account>
  ...
</contact>

Result:

Definition

<contact>
  ..
  <account type="${type}">${userID}</account>
  ..
</contact>

Supported account types

Currently supported account types (case in-sensitive values for ${type}):

• AIM
• amiestreet.com (no icon)
• bebo (no icon)
• brightkite (no icon)
• cliqset (no icon)
• DeviantArt
• digg
• dopplr (no icon)
• ebay (no icon)
• Facebook
• Flickr
• friendster (no icon)
• hi5.com (no icon)
• hypem.com (The Hype Machine)
• Google
• GoogleCode
• hellotxt (no icon)
• ICQ
• Jabber (no icon)
• jappy.de (no icon)
• last.fm
• LinkedIn
• lokalisten.de (no icon)
• MSNIM
• my.opera.com (no icon)
• MySpace
• orkut (no icon)
• Picasa
• quarterlife.com (no icon)
• Qype (no icon)
• Twitter
• rememberthemilk or rmilk (no icon)
• Skype
• Soup
• Spin.de
• schuelervz
• studiVZ
• SourceForge
• technorati (no icon)
• Xing
• YIM
• YouTube

Value for ${userID} is basically an unique user id used at the specific account type. ${userID} is part of the URL which is built from for this account, e.g.
<account type="twitter">bartensud</account>
results in http://www.twitter.com/bartensud

Generic support for account types

There's also a generic way to link to arbitrary accouts:

• Value for ${type}: arbitrary string which will be shown as link text (e.g. abcdef)
• Value for ${userID}: Complete URL to your account (e.g. http://abc-def.net/user/bartensud)
  <account type="abcdef">http://abc-def.net/user/bartensud</account>
  Remark: Unsupported account types are displayed as text (not icons)

Account types

bebo

<account type="bebo">${userID}</account>

will be resolved to your profile site at bebo.com
Possible values for userID:

• Your user name at bebo (e.g. bartensud results in http://www.bebo.com/bartensud)
• Your member id at bebo (e.g. 9486378706 results in http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=9486378706)

ebay

<account type="ebay">${userID}</account>

will be resolved to your profile site at ebay.com
Possible values for userID:

• Your user id for ebay logon (e.g. bartensud results in http://myworld.ebay.com/bartensud)
• Seems that country specific urls (Top level domain) works, too: http://myworld.ebay.de/{userid} for profile in german language.

Facebook

<account type="facebook">${userID}</account>

will be resolved to your profile site at facebook.com
Possible values for userID:

• Your user name at Facebook (short URL, e.g. bartensud results in http://www.facebook.com/bartensud)
• Your long member id at Facebook (e.g. Thomas-Bartensud/1544540268 results in http://www.facebook.com/people/Thomas-Bartensud/1544540268)

Flickr

<account type="flickr">${userID}</account>

will be resolved to your profile site at flickr.com
Possible values for userID:

• Flickr web address alias (e.g. bartensud results in http://www.flickr.com/people/bartensud). Alias needs to be enabled in flickr account settings.
• Flickr ID (e.g. 50469194@N02 results in http://www.flickr.com/people/50469194@N02)

Google

<account type="Google">${userID}</account>

will be resolved to your profile site at Google: http://www.google.com/profiles/${userID}
It may be necessary to create your Google profile explicitly although you've already an account.
Values for userID:

• Your unique name at Google (gmail user), e.g. thomas.bartensud
• Your unique id at Google, e.g. 101681298830585489713

studiVZ

<account type="studiVZ">${userID}</account>

will be resolved to your profile site at studiVZ: http://www.studivz.net/Profile/${userID}
Values for userID:

• Logon to studiVZ and go to your profile site (Meine Seite), e.g. www.studivz.net/Profile/250c34b1fe2eafa2/tid/102. UserID is the bold marked part.

Example:

<account type="studiVZ">250c34b1fe2eafa2</account>

...