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 On 03/11/10 02:12, Stuart Langridge wrote:

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 01:52 +0100, frederik nnaji wrote:


 i love this thread!
Do you have access to Evolution Contacts also?
Or perhaps Thunderbird?
Evolution used to have a plugin that could exchange contacts with
Pidgin!
Gnome Do already merged Pidgin contacts with Evolution contacts, it's
just that its interface was so reductionist that it was kinda
undiscoverable..
It would be nice to aggregate information artefacts on individuals
from everywhere relevant, i.e. also from Gwibber.
To avoid duplication of effort, i suggest coding the contact
information retrieval modules independently from the social apps, i.e.
from empathy / gwibber / emailapp..   those should rather be consumers
of that information.


 Agreed completely. At Ubuntu One we're working on precisely the idea of
handling merging of contacts, pulling in your contacts from Facebook and
Google and so on. So I suggest that the People place shouldn't worry
about fetching all the contacts from everywhere; instead, just display
whatever's in the Ubuntu One addressbook, and then as we add more
contacts to that addressbook they'll all appear in Unity, and the People
place itself doesn't have to worry about a million different contact
sources; it can concentrate on displaying really useful information
about those contacts rather than the contacts themselves.

sil



sorry sil, i should have kept an eye on the thread while writing my last
message..
Perhaps its because i'm testing Thunderbird again, and it doesn't notify you
about new messages in the thread as gmail.com does..

thanks for all the motivating information!
Forgive my blunt directness here: are libfolks and U1 competing here?

I first saw the idea of metacontacts in pidgin long time ago.
Then i got me a WebOS mobile around May, it featured automatic merging of
facebook and google contacts, as well as SIM contacts and people in the
ordinary phonebook, that was quite inspiring. All of a sudden, my phonebook
had thumbs for over 30% of the contacts, and all i had to do was give my
phone access to my social accounts by entering username and password.
Palm called that technology "Synergy".

Now i see that both U1 and libfolks strive into that direction, is that
collaboration, competition or would you call it diversity?