Mac Geekery

For some time I have been working on a solution for sharing contacts. With LDAP being already supported by most client applications (including Mail, Thunderbird and Outlook) it seems to make perfect sense to store contact information in an LDAP directory. A common problem is getting contact information into an LDAP directory. There are some good web and installed applications which allow the maintenance of an ldap directory. In practice this is a nice solution, although not very practical. Usually one tend to keep contact in ones local Address Book. Many application have the ability to add contact directly to a local Address book, and offering tighter integration, so this is the place where contacts usually end up. The problem is getting them into an ldap directory and keeping them updated. There's more »