sync with your contacts
First of all my appologies for so many days without any sign of life from the backstage! We are still extremely busy behind the scenes, but as we don’t want you to lose sight of our work, here is the next post (b.t.w. thank you for all your feedback in this early stage!). In my last post I presented one of the main concepts of fruux – synchronizing data with the fruuxDatabase and other computers. Thats the foundation of the whole system.
Staying in sync with all your different devices is of course very important and thus nice to have, but not really beneficial if you are syncing outdated data all the time. your friends, family and business contacts move from one town to another, get new emailaddresses, new phone numbers etc.
this is why we are adding functionality to fruux, which will allow you to connect your virtual (business)card with the addressbook of your contact (and the other way round). nontechnically speaking that means: you and your contact will always have up-to-date emailadresses, phonenumbers, adresses etc. of each other – automatically. your addressbook will maintain itself in the future. of course you’ll have comprehensive privacy settings for each connecting to another user (like just sharing your business contact details or just sharing your private contact details, etc.).
February 24th, 2008 at 1:00 am
[...] One of the creators defines it as social and sync. You can sync your Mac Adress Book (OK, but what else ?), and it will be able to keep your contacts up to date, provided your contacts aslo use it. More info on that feature here. [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
[...] social features (described here) [...]
September 15th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
[...] adding social-syncing [...]
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 am
[...] Bookmark Syncing – Preferences Syncing – “Social Syncing” – iPhone Sync Client – fruux Webapp (Addressbook/Calendar/Bookmarks on the go from any [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hi,
please add function for sync address book and calendar with gmail.
and if possible, please add support sync with exchange server!
thanks!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am
What I am always was searching for is to exchange certain (not all) calendars with another person, i.e. to my wife, to my working collegue, to my secretary (if I had one
. And if this is possible, to hide the subjects of the private calendars to the other, so that he/she sees only “private”.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:37 am
NOT gmail they can use a googlesync app (won’t say names here) i’m very glad there is NO google!!
And now you wan’t google :S This is the sync without google all apple things can be synced the better mobileme
So go ahead without google
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 am
[...] updates such as a web application to access your data from any computer, preferences syncing, and social syncing. There’s also an iPhone and iPod Touch client in the works, making Fruux’s future look [...]
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I would love to see an option for Google syncing as well, especially iCal and Contacts. It doesn’t have to be an option that you use if you don’t want to use Google. I like the Social Contacts option as well, but it will be hard to get most of my Windows/Outlook users to use it as most are already using Plaxo, but if get Fluux to connect to Plaxo then you might have it made. If you don’t join with Plaxo, then Outlook users will have no way to update to Fluux (unless that is your plans as well) and therefore it will be Mac only and then only those who don’t use some other email app like Gmail.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
[...] is all about social syncing (that kind of differenciates fruux from [...]
January 12th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
The difference between a good sync app and a fantastic sync app is syncing (migrating) data with Outlook – there you have an enormous market. There is NOT ONE single app that can sync/migrate you Outlook data to Entourage, Mail, iCal or Adressbook – Contacts, calendar – ok, but what about Tasks?
Personally I´ve been on a Windows machine for 15 years – and just converted to MacBook Pro – yes!! fantastic machine and OS etc…
But, what the f…. Business wise the Mac community is a bit… challenged …. The thought never struck me that there was no way to migrate my Outlook data to any app on the Mac. Result is Parallel Desktop and… Outlook… (as I create a 2-3 Gb .pst-file a year there is huge amount of data).
So, please look into creating an Outlook sync feature (migrate possibility).
Why do you think Microsoft haven´t made a tool for this between Outlook and Entourage??? Then it probably would be too easy to migrate to a better OS… cause a lot of people would make the leap then…
Keep up the good work though (maybe my wishes come through one day
)
March 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Just want to add a “please sync with gmail” too, Addressbook would be very very nice, calendar could be a second step. There is a good API to access gmail data.