sync contacts with social networks

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When/if this feature is added, please, ensure that one can add it as a one-way sync point. I am not very fond of the idea to let Facebook get access to my entire address book.

I have been trying Soocial for only a few weeks and really like it, but it is clearly lascking sync and editing features.

This thread makes me wonder how fast Soocial is evolving (ie how long I should wait for more/better features) because a ten month old thread that was was supposed to be closed months ago ...isn't.

My current contacts provider (Memotoo) doesn't look as polished as Soocial, but does absolutely everything I want (including the requests on this thread and a lot of others). I am hoping that Soocial will evolve fast because I am maintaining 2 contact databases whilst I evaluate Soocial.

OK, that all makes sense, but what's your time-line (do you need beta testers)?

Well, I have managed it a longer way around, but it requires a Yahoo account. As it turns out, Yahoo will import contacts from Facebook, then all you need to do is sync to your Yahoo account. Long winded, but it does get the job done, until Soocial has native Facebook support.

If you use Yahoo instant messenger, you will also likely want to use filters to block all the IM only contacts from any other accounts.

I'm impatient to see this feature :)
Do you have any idea of the go live date ?

> Do you have any idea of the go live date ?

Personally, as someone who's used a lot of software and services for 10+ years, I prefer companies who simply don't say when or what they're doing. I know it seems counter-intuitive from a customer standpoint, but software development is subject to many twists, turns and roadblocks. I've literally seen projects come off the wheels from over-promising and then suffering under the weight of the negative "you said we'd have this by now" feedback, examples of which can be seen in this thread.

This is why many developers announce something only at the time it's available and never give estimated dates. Google for example. I'm on board with that. I don't want to hear about it until I can have it. Even knowing something is on the drawing board creates expectations and clamoring for dates. I'd rather the coders and support people stay busy actually creating stuff than answering questions about when and if something will be ready.

I know others will disagree, and that's ok, but I think promising timelines for feature/functionality rollout is a slippery slope for any software developer unless they're damn sure they can keep the promise.

For those of you missing information about your contacts, here's another neat little trick. Start an act over at gist.com (if you're on Google's Web hosted domains, there is even a web app). Gist will look for twitter acts, email addresses, birthdays, websites, etc. It's a great way to get more information about your contacts than you already have. If you connect through twitter, you might need to remove some of the "fan" users you follow. Then, you can tag to match groups on soocial. Now, export the vcf for the contacts and then import into soocial.com. Finally, use soocial.com's deduper feature to clean up the duplicates. Presto. Now contacts where you only had email addresses, you now have a lot more social information, which would then, in turn, be sync'ed to your phone.

In all honesty, this is a hack that just works similar to Mozilla's Alpha Contacts project, expect unlike that project, this lets you get the data to your phone.

Keep in mind, though, that this will be slightly time consuming (took me most of the morning to go through approximately 700+ contacts.

Between this and the Yahoo sync, I hope this helps everyone get by until a more formal solution is implemented.

By-the-by, it would be incredibly helpful to grab social networking URLs if soocial were to call a site such as Dandyid.com where users put all their URLs into one centralized location. Rather than reinvent the wheel, wouldn't this add to soocial's usefulness. Just a thought.

Marc K.
@stayinginsync
stayinginsync.info

technomensch, I think you are mistaken. I have just hooked up my Windows Live to Facebook. I don't think Facebook did bring in any phone numbers or e-mail addresses that I didn't have in Live already. It does get birthdays, company's, city's and a bunch of other stuff.

Is there any changelog and plan for the future updates ?
Sorry about that, but I have the feeling, there was no update since a while !