Further to my previous post I figure bigsight could be ahead of the game with FriendCSV. Aligning Gmail contacts with Facebook friends would be super great even if the use was limited to having your friends FB profile picture show up in Gmail contacts and their birthday in Google calendar. What about having their location show up in Google maps and their status updates show up in Google reader?
How about having their phone number show up in Skype?
Whatever, if bigsight can manage to bridge OpenSocial and Facebook they could find themselves with a killer app, and the rest of us could find ourselves not having to choose between social networks.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Yo. Yep we’re tweaking around with some of these ideas as you speak. We just added a little feature to FriendCSV that does a call to your gmail contacts list, and if it finds a match with your fb friends, it exports the e-mail address as well. We’ll be adding other functionality here. We do hope to be one of the first to bridge both of the platforms in a meaningful way, though I assume that Google will be ahead of us on this. They already have an alpha launch of some code called “Identity Matcher” which aims to verify people across multiple networks.
November 24th, 2007 at 3:44 am
I’m glad to see you trying to bridge gmail contacts with Facebook contacts. It just shows that any
good idea can become BIG! You don’t have to be one of the BIG boys, like Google. Look at Portal
Feeder that is going to launch on Dec.4th, check it out at http://portal-feeder-review.com. Great job!
January 8th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
If they can do that then they will open a door a whole new kind of social media.
January 9th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Well, nice article…
but i dislike skype…