Introduction

So, you have your Gmail address, with all your contacts there, and synced with your Android, or iPhone, or both!, but what about your Facebook contacts?

Yes, you may want to have all your Facebook contacts' emails in your phone as well, and there is a nice solution for this.

Import your facebook contacts' emails to your Gmail account

You will need:

-     A Gmail account -     A Facebook account -     A Yahoo email account

The first step is to backup your Yahoo email contacts, To do that go to: Contacts –> Tools –> Export. And save them to your disk.

After that, clear all your yahoo contacts, and go to: Contacts –> Tools –> Import, and use this tool to import your Facebook contacta.

Now you have to export them again as Netscape/Thunderbird format.

Finally import that file in your Gmail address book. Well you are done!.

Now you have your Facebook friends' emails in your Gmail address book.

Finally, you can restore your Yahoo backup so you have it as it was before you start this process.

Will this phone start look for facebook friend out of your phone contacts?
Maybe lots of people would like that feature, I do not.

Amplify’d from daringfireball.net

A Facebook Phone?

An interesting story developed yesterday, starting with a Mike Arrington scoop for TechCrunch purporting that “Facebook Is Secretly Building a Phone”:

Facebook is building a mobile phone, says a source who has knowledge of the project. Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what Apple and everyone else does, too.

“Facebook is not building a phone,” Facebook spokesperson Jaime Schopflin told CNET today. “Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this.

Soon after the story hit, Facebook issued a denial:

Then, late in the day, Scott Ard reported for CNet that, despite the denial earlier in the day, Facebook was indeed “mulling a branded smartphone”:

Facebook denied a story published this weekend that says the company is “building a mobile phone,” but CNET has confirmed that the social-networking giant has reached out to hardware manufacturers and carriers seeking input on a potential Facebook-branded phone. Read more at daringfireball.net

Well, this is a good one, it is certainly a problem that in facebook all your so-called friends, are on the same bag.
And some of them are maybe only people you barely know, like that new colleague.
With this new feature, you will have the control about who see what on your profile.

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

Facebook Lets Users Interact in Small Groups

The company on Wednesday introduced a feature that allows users to interact with small groups of people, like their family, high school friends or colleagues.

The move is an effort to address a longstanding problem: Facebook friends often span a broad range of relationships that include relatives, classmates, casual professional acquaintances or jogging partners — and not everyone wants all of them to see his or her information.

With the new feature, called Groups, Facebook hopes to encourage users to upload more photos, videos and other information to the site while giving them new ways to control who sees what.

On Wednesday Facebook also introduced two other services: one to allow users to download all their Facebook information into one file, and another to let people monitor how third-party applications gain access to their personal data. Read more at www.nytimes.com