You probably have more friends scattered across more social networks than you even care to think about. Friends wants to be one place where you can find them all – and see what they’re saying, wherever they’re saying it.
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Cyberstalking: it’s exhausting! First you’ve gotta check Facebook statuses, then move over to Twitter updates, maybe give a quick call for a nice, heavy breathing moment. Thank goodness this Friends app collects all that info in one place. Time: saved.
Google allows its users to download their data for exporting elsewhere. But after their tough stance against Facebook not sharing its own data, they blocked that option. Facebook’s cleverly circumnavigated the block, meaning Gmail users can still find friends there.
Rainmaker syncs contact data from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn so you don’t have to manually update your Google contacts or even go and look up the contact information yourself.
Another week, another change to web-based Gmail. This time the contacts section has received a lick of paint, with keyboard shortcuts, organisation by surnames and custom labels being just a few of the improvements. Check it out from today. [GmailBlog]
Those who use Google Apps probably assume data is safer in a cloud than it is on a laptop, prone to being dropped and spilled upon. Spanning Backup says otherwise, offering data protection services against data loss on Google’s end.
