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I recently posted an article about how to export all your contacts from Xing as vcards, utilizing applescript and DevonAgent. This is no longer necessary: Xing.com finally added an option to export the whole address book as one huge vcard. You can do this by choosing the “Mobile export” function, as shown below:
Go to the xing address book tab and click on the following link:
Finally 
The business networking platform openBC (soon to be named Xing) has a nice plugin for synching one’s address book on windows working with Outlook, but as of now there is no useful alternative for MacOSX.
However, a clever use of DEVONagent and Automator helps to export all vcards of one’s contacts on OpenBC, which can then be opened and imported into iCal or any other address book application.
The workflow looks a bit like this: (and can be downloaded here)
I believe a similar workflow may be created with other tools, but if you are serious about web research you should check out DEVONagent nevertheless!
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