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Facebook to Outlook synchronization

Today while I was browsing Facebook mobile I remembered that it had a Phonebook feature which lists numbers of my friends who filled that detail out in their profile. Additionally, whenever I would browse on the phone I would occassionally get a top story of <someone> changed his/her phone number, it has been added to your phonebook., so immediately I thought to myself if there existed software that could synchronize my Facebook contacts’ phone numbers to Outlook. This is extreme handy as nearly everyone in the Philippines is on a prepaid number so people tend to change numbers often and I’m assuming that when they do, they also update their Facebook contact information.

I was… not exactly in luck.. there’s an application called Fonebook – http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2442338999&b&ref=pd that lets you transfer photos, web addresses and birthdays, but due to Facebook “privacy restrictions”, I don’t think they support phone numbers in the developer API. Further research told me there existed programs that used to export phone numbers (unfortunately not sync them to Outlook) and were eventually blocked by Facebook.

Sad, but I wasn’t left empty handed. Fonebook still came in very handy, I have a Nokia phone that syncs with Outlook which downloaded the pictures and other information Fonebook retrieved.

Fonebook is about 5MB in size, there’s another program called OutSync that only synchronizes photos, you can download it at http://www.melsam.com/outsync/default.aspx.

If you know any program that does my original intention, please leave a comment!