A few months back, we hosted a developer challenge to build a FullContact Google Chrome Extension for Salesforce. Today, the early beta is available on the Chrome Webstore. Click here to download. The goals of the FullContact Chrome Extension were: Enable contextual FullContact content inside of Salesforce.com without installing a Salesforce Application. Eliminate tedious data Continue reading…
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It’s Okay To Hate Networking, But It’s Not Okay To Suck At It
Do you hate networking? It often means you have other skills. Even we can’t help you if you don’t acquire any partial contacts in the first place. And, unavoidably, that means networking. So how do you get past your hatred for schmoozing and bring home some valuable emails and phone numbers? I’m not a gifted Continue reading…
What’s Really In A Name?
A name by itself contains very little information; it’s just a string of letters. So what do you do when you need to know more about a name? At FullContact, we’re solving the world’s contact management problem, an in doing so we’ve created a number of tools to deal with names, like the Name Similarity, Continue reading…
What the Digital Age Can Learn from the Rolodex Era
Physical rolodexes are relics of our business past, long since replaced with contact management software, smartphones, email programs, and cloud services. With FullContact’s Contact Management API and iOS app, we help developers, businesses, and average people turn their contact lists into smart lists which perpetually add new information and update the old. But what can Continue reading…
Name Similarity API Released
You’ve probably noticed a theme in the APIs we’ve been releasing recently; they all deal with processing people’s names. Today, we’re announcing the release of the Name Similarity API, which answers the question “How similar are these two names?”. What is the Name Similarity API? The Name Similarity API compares two names, given as the Continue reading…
Your Mom is Not a Valid Test Market
I recently asked a startup founder if he’d gotten some real feedback on his product. His response: “I’ve shown it to all my friends and family, and they said they really like it.” I threw up in my mouth a little bit. Not good. His app sucked (and I told him that), and this poor Continue reading…
Why The Hell Do We Keep Changing Our Pricing?
This is the question our customers have been asking us over the last three weeks. FullContact introduced a new basic plan for $99, then reduced the number of free API calls by 75%, then reduced our prices by more than 5X, then added a $19 plan and even an Unlimited plan! Seriously…who the f*#k does Continue reading…
Extract Structured Name Data with the Name Deducer API
What is the Name Deducer API? The Name Deducer method takes a username or email address provided as a string and attempts to deduce a structured name. How does it work? Just like our Name Parser API, the Name Deducer method uses US population data to determine which parts of a username or email adress Continue reading…
Full Contacts for Better Networking
We’ve all known them. Those old timers in the office who know everyone. Anytime you wanted to know who to call about something, you stopped by their desk. They would spend a few minutes flipping through a Rolodex stuffed to max with worn cards identifying contacts and give you a name, a number, and usually Continue reading…
Asynchronous Delivery with Webhooks (and testing locally)
One of our primary goals at FullContact is to make our service fast, easy, and responsive. With that in mind we designed a HTTP callback mechanism to automatically POST a JSON document containing query results to a given consumer endpoint. We (and many others) call these ‘webhooks‘. While initially a very minor feature, the HTTP Continue reading…
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