I’d pay $50 for this iPhone app:
I want to take all my contacts out of Facebook and put them on my iPhone.
I’ll pay $50. Any takers?
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
What about for a pricing scheme at $1 per 10 contacts?
$50 is alot of internet money.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I have no idea how to make that app, but i do know that you can go to facebook on the iphone.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Why bother?
Just use Facebook Mobile and send a text to Facebook (32665) with the name of a person in your network.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Get the boys from Plaxo to do it. I’m sure it’s in their plans anyway.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Second thought:
What about an app that makes a vCard for all your “social network” contacts and adds the appropriate information, combining where appropriate, and keeps a set of their most recent headshot picture of them?
Why stop with Facebook?
June 27th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Unless Facebook enables the phone tag, you still can’t dial it on the iPhone from the web because of no copy/paste function.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Most apps that have been developed like this have been smacked down because to do so violates the Facebook terms of use. The most recent one I know of was
http://www.fsbsoftware.com/
June 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Daniel Nicholas, I’d pay for that service. Probably even more than $50.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
@Daniel er… I think the limiting factor would be “$50″, unless someone’s time is that cheap.
And yes Scoble, I am commenting because you are tired of lurkers on your blog.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Brandon: no, I want the contacts into the address book on the phone itself.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Here’s a bit of a workaround if you’ve got a Mac.
Download FacebookSync.app (http://www.fsbsoftware.com/)
This puts all your Friends in Address Book - with any info that might be made available on Facebook (picture, phone, address, etc). And Address Book will sync to your iPhone.
If you run the app a second time, it recognizes already-stored contacts and will update information if it’s changed or just skip ‘em.
Facebook used to provide a vCard for your contacts but they disabled it (for privacy concerns, ostensibly). Too bad.
UPDATE: As I write this, I noticed that the app is no longer available because Facebook contacted the dev to say it violates Terms of Use.
Well, I’ve got it still…
June 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Raena: I’d pay Facebook to do it!
June 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
They might want more than $50, then ;)
June 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Raena beat me to it!
I think we need to put some pressure on Facebook to open this up a bit more. They’re great about pulling stuff in at the moment, but need to give a bit back out to the world, maybe. Share alike.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Give me access to all your contacts and I’ll do it for free ;-)
June 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
So, I found a copy of facebooksync. I sent it to robert. it’s not fully working for me. not sure if fb blocked it/ my mbpro has been acting up. this would be a great app. i think facebook should do it as an official app.
-jlb
June 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
This illustrates a problem with Facebook: Everything that goes into Facebook stays there. The new Facebbok apps are great, but they really should open up more of the stuff.
One example: In Flickr there’s also Flickr Mail, Flickr’s own “in-house” mail system. I can set up alerts that tell me when I get one (like in Facebook). But I get the actual mail: I see the contents of the mail. I don’t need to log on to Yahoo/Flickr to actually read the mail.
It’s just stupid that there’s no way for me to get the names/e-mails of my friends out of Facebook in an easy way.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Facebook = the new AOL
June 27th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Might as well say $1,000,000, Scoble… Apple locked the iPhone like Fort Knox… no apps for v1 :)
June 27th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Theres a mac app called Facebook Sync but Facebook shut it down because it violated their TOS. It just takes all your Facebook contacts and adds them to address book. Lucky for you, i’ve still got an old copy and it still works! Email me and i’ll send a copy your way
June 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Zack: you don’t get it. It doesn’t actually have to sync with my iPhone. It has to sync with my Mac’s contact app and THAT will sync with my iPhone.
Matthew: would love to get a copy!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I still have a copy of FacebookSync too so if anybody needs it let me know. It is outstanding. I use it every week to sync my Macs Address Book with my Facebook contacts. The cool thing is that all the hard work is done by my contacts (change of email address, new number etc) so all I do is sync.
Speaking of iPhone apps, have you seen reader.mac.com Robert? Apples first web based app for the iPhone
It looks like a synced version of Safaris own RSS reader, and due to the domain a new feature for .Mac.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
That’s interesting that people are saying Facebook’s TOS prevents that. I haven’t looked myself, but at first glance that seems like a mistake on their part. They are MY contacts, so I should be able to export them.
On the flip side, you (or they) could argue that the information in fact belongs to the people in my network / friends list… and that by removing it from Facebook, they can no longer guarantee that their users have control over where their data goes.
Of course, that’s a tough argument to make, since I can easily print that information, or write it down…
June 27th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
iPhone sucks, just check this out:
http://www.openmoko.org/
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-June/000013.html
June 28th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Well, there’s always Amazon’s Mechanical Turk… Somehow that strikes me as a non-qualifying app tho.
Didn’t we discuss this some time back? Messrs. Winer, Mayfield, et al posited portability of contacts between the social sites. Still not there?
Yeah, your buds at Plaxo could chew this up and make cash flow might quick like. Didn’t Mr. Andreesen just say… business plans take strange turns. This might be one of “those”.
June 28th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Hey can you send me a copy of the app? That would be great.
Cheers,
June 28th, 2007 at 10:54 am
i’d love a windows copy of fsbsync please
June 30th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Matt,
Can you email me a copy of facebook sync
July 1st, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Hey Matt,
I’d love to have a copy of fb-sync for my mac, please send! =)
July 1st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
hey can someone please send me a copy of facebooksync, ive been lookin around but im new so idk how to directly email anyone on this site lol
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Hello all- There is a Facebook group called “Official Petition to Facebook for vCard Support”- Please search for it, join it, invite all your friends to it. Ultimately it might not change anything but if we show Fb there’s a demand for this, maybe they’ll at least consider it.
Also, I’ve tried this app, but it’s had some bugs for me I’ve been too lazy to fix:
http://martindavidsson.blogspot.com/2005/08/facebook-vcards-ii.html
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Correction: Firefox plugin, not app
July 11th, 2007 at 12:10 am
hit me up with an old copy of fbsync for mac please! thanks.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Can someone send me a copy of fbsync please! Email davidoneill [at] gmail
August 5th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
I’d love a copy of the old facebooksync as well, if it’s not to much trouble to email it. My email is moltovivace@shaw.ca
August 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Hey, I’d also love to have the FBsync app. Could somebody pleeease mail it? I can’t beleive it’s so hard to find anywhere! My email is henrikljungdahl@yahoo.se
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Can I have a copy?
dbrainiak914atyahoodotcom
Thanks!!!
September 4th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
If there are still copies of facebook sync 1.2/1.3 available, I’d love one! bcley at mac.com
Thanks!
September 8th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Anyone hook me up with that facebook sync? You would be a god. As soon as I get it I’ll also share.
stormstar1 at gmail dot com
September 10th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hey can i also PLEASE get a copy of facebook sync?
graydonpleasants at gmail dot com
thanks
September 21st, 2007 at 12:28 pm
can someone email me a copy of fbsync 1.2 to jsorthe (at) gmail.com??????
please!
September 27th, 2007 at 5:13 am
Can someone email me a copy of fbsync 1.2 to witandcharm (at) gmail.com ??
Thanks.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I hate to be a “me too”er, but would love if someone sent me a copy of the 1.2
wadekainer at yahoo dot com
October 19th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I’m dying to have a working (non-crippled) version of this app. Please email me at
idowens at gmail dot com
a MILLION thank yous in advance.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Can somebody please send me a copy of the working version of this app?
Please email me at:
kotzin at gmail dot com
Thanks in advance!
October 24th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Please please please send me the working version of that app. Have been looking absolutely everywhere and you would make my week. Please please please,
ajmortimer (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks
Jon
October 28th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Hey…is it still possible to get a copy of the old version of the Facebook Sync App?
could someone PLEASE send it to me?!
speedyk2000 [AT] hotmail [DOT] com
Thanks to anyone who can!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Why does no one puts it somewhere in the internet so everyone can download it??
Obviously a lot of people are looking for it……
Can someone send it please to my mailadress: jonashaentjes (at) gmx (dot) de
October 30th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
FaceBookSync does not work anymore.. atleast not for me… and 2.2 doesn’t even work.. maybe thats my fault.. theres gotta me another one… i rly wanna update ppls pics so when ppl call.. it shows em! :D
November 16th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Hi!
Joining the choir i guess….. If anyone has the old version of facebook sync - please mail it to me at: mail@mikkelthisted.dk
Thanks!
November 20th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Hello all. I would also like a copy of the pre-crippled version of facebook sync. My e-mail is dymutaos@bluebottle.com (dymutaos (at) bluebottle (dot) com)
November 28th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Any chance I could get the old version by email as well.
smhurtado (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks
December 15th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Can i get it too please. (There is a torrent seed of version 2.0 beta on the internet) I still want 1.2 tho, please email “explicit_k at hotmail dot com”
January 9th, 2008 at 3:08 am
can i get the old copy of fbsync too? thanx!
318noire (at) gmail (dot) com
January 9th, 2008 at 7:23 am
I know this is just joining the bandwagon but I would really like a copy too please for mac osx if anyone can help out
georgewalley1@gmail.com
Cheers
George
January 25th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I would also like a copy, if it isn’t too late!
email:
christinarobev (at) mac (dot) com
thanks!
January 26th, 2008 at 6:44 am
please send me a copy of facebook sync 1.2 to roberto2_0_1_0@hotmail.com
thanks
January 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I would love a working copy of FaceBook Sync!
bwoodruff - gmail
Thanks in advance
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
If anyone still has facebooksync 1.2 could you please send me it. This would be a big help. my email is shayneroz[at}gmail[dot]com
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
If someone could please send me a copy of facebooksync 1.2 it would be great. my email is shayneroz [at] gmail [dot] com
March 17th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Here’s to viral distribution. If everybody who gets it sends it to two people who ask…
jackstah [yourfavoritesymbol] gmail [youknowthedrill]
March 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
hiya :)
i’ve been looking everywhere for an original version of this software! would be massively grateful if someone would email it to me :) jonesehe at hotmail.com
i’ll try and put it up on rapidshare or something when i get it, then you guys wont get bugged so much for a copy
many thanks in advance
April 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I’ve been trying to track down a copy of FBS 1.2 for ages after overwriting it with the ‘crippled’ version.
Could someone please send me a copy (or point me in the right direction): wilstobbart@mac.com
April 16th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Could someone send me a copy of FBS 1.2? THANKS in advance!! ilovethepiano28@hotmail.com
May 12th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Can someone please send me a copy of one of the old versions of FBS? Or maybe just post it on rapidshare or a torrent. Thanks.
ryansanche@hotmail.com
May 12th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I’m with Ryan - I’d love a 1.2 if possible! pranz518[at]gmail[dot]com
Thanks! :)
May 20th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Hi to you all. Wondering how many of your requests for Facebook Sync 1.2 was forthcoming, and if any of you have the heart to send it to me too:
andrew (at) blackwell (dot) dk
I’ve also managed to get Version 2.0 as a torrent, but alas, it crashes.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:43 am
http://rapidshare.com/files/36533891/FacebookSync.zip.html
Is this the version you are all looking for?
I can’t see any version number.. I got mobile numbers, email, names, photos, bdays off facebook with it.. took a few times to get all my contacts though..
July 5th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
hey so the rapid share link only downloaded like 50 contacts, and shut off like 1/3rd the way through. please PLEASE send me a copy of the 1.2 version. I am getting an iphone 3G and i need a way to be able to sync all of them to my phone… and i dont mean just using fb mobile. my email is sarabear4@gmail.com thanks!!!
July 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Hi can someone pleeeaaassse send my a copy of FacebookSync 1.2. I promise to share to others. simonfromwollongong@googlemail.com
Thanks.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Did anyone get a non crippled version of the PC application? If so, please send it to me….pretty please? I will do my happy monkey dance..
face (at) easingthebadger.com
July 26th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hey guys,
Joining the EVER Growing choir,
could someone Pleaseeee email me a copy of facebooksync 1.2/1.3
or at least direct a hosting website on here/to me =).
as it’s getting to be a real pain tracking this thing down!!
email me —- tom (AT) thomaspegg.com
Thanks a million.
I hope SOMEONE can help me… I should probably mention i have over 600contacts on facebook alone! Filled with Collegues, Friends, Aquantances and useful contacts that I want on my iPhone syncing via address book!
I tried the 2.0 and the rapidshare link above… but crashed after about 25 contacts.
xx
September 28th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Hey guys, if any superstars out there has a version1 copy (doesnt matter which exact copy) i Would be eternally grateful!
it would be even better if someone uploaded it to a sharing site or created a download link as even the developer on the website would rather people did this than bother him!
if you cant do that please email to me [bradclarkuk at gmail.com]
Thousands of Thank-Yous.
Brad