With some core changes to way you interact with contacts, Google Apps has dipped a toe in to the enterprise social networking waters. As of today, Apps contacts exhibits shades of Facebook and Twitter by allowing you to find and interact with all the user profiles in your Apps suite.

According to Google, these adjustments where made at the behest of enterprise Apps users. It has also made a user profiles API available to Premier Edition customers, one that allows IT to retrieve and manipulate data about all the people using Apps in a company.

How the New Contacts Work

Previously, contacts withing Google Apps functioned just like email: only people you’d previously communicated with or added intentionally appeared. But now, a search will provide profiles from your company’s entire address book, acting very similar to the way enterprise social networking platforms treat user profiles.

Those who’ve ponied up for the Premier Edition of Google Apps, a new API will let you call up data pertaining to all the user profiles in your company Apps suite. That’s on top of the shared contacts API released in December of 2008. Read more…

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