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[Arian van Gend <waggy@xxxxxxxx>]

This would indeed be a very welcome feature. I'm wondering about the
possibility to choose your own back-end though.
Personally, I would prefer to not use Ubuntu One for this, but my google
contacts, which I've already managed and merged with contacts from other
accounts (like facebook), so I'd rather see the option to manage them
through Ubuntu's facilities.

2010/11/3 frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>

>  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?
>
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