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Rapleaf continues to add features and gain traction after seemingly beating out several other reputation tracking systems. What services do you use to track your reputation?

Thousands of sites are building address book importers so their users can find or invite their friends – the problem is that you have to buy the code to do it (and only the very expensive products are reliable) and you have to maintain that code.

Now Rapleaf just released the Rapleaf Address Book API, which you can use to build your own address book importer with no effort. Accelerate your viral growth with this easy to use API.The Address Book API allows you to:

• Ask your users for their email login credentials (for Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail/MSN)
• Securely pass the credentials to the Address Book API
• Obtain the names and email addresses of all the contacts in that person’s address book

Check it out at: http://www.rapleaf.com/apidoc/v2/abook

From the Rapleaf team:

We wanted to let you know that the Rapleaf API v2 is now available to all Rapleaf partners.

The Rapleaf API v2 allows you to go beyond reputation information and query for social network profiles, name, age, gender, location, and more.

This is all made available via the person resource, which you can learn more about at:

http://www.rapleaf.com/apidoc/v2

All partners can query up to 4000 lookups per day on the Rapleaf API v2.

If you currently have the Rapleaf API v1 running, you will not be affected by this release, but we encourage you to upgrade to v2.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, and we look forward to seeing Rapleaf partners build great web tools on top of our v2 API.

Rapleaf has announced that Hans Blaauw in Holland has built a Rapleaf plug-in for Skype. This Skype addon allows you to one click rate a friend/buyer or seller and display the reputation icon in your Skype avatar. Link to 5.3 MB download via Skypeteer.

Tech Crunch says that eBay is banning Rapleaf, a reputation and feedback management startup that has partnered with Opinity. My pre-coffee thoughts on the subject.

I got my Rapleaf invitation, and have been putting the service through it’s paces before it launches on May 7. I’ve not been rated yet, but here is my icon that will be used on my blog and e-commerce websites.