It's better than it used to be. I have one set of contacts in my
Exchange/Outlook folders. And they're synced to my phone and PDA. But
they're not synced into Gmail (you have to use import/export). Nor are
they synced to my Mac (running MS Office v.X - yes, I know that Office
2004 SP2 finally works almost as well as Outlook 2001 under OS 9 -
that's a whole OTHER posting.)
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Feature idea: I want all of my contacts synced all the time everywhere in all of my web applications. So my contacts from Outlook, Gmail, Salesforce.com, my phone, and my PDA should be in sync at all times.
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Need standards
by
Boris Mann
on Sat 05 Nov 2005 05:05 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link
You need standards here. vCard is pretty close to being the universal standard for exchanging contact information, but next you have to standardize on an actual synch protocol.
Are all the contacts going to live inside an LDAP directory that all these things can connect to? Maybe SyncML? What about local caching for when you're offline? .Mac is the closest thing to universal sync that we have, and even that doesn't work that great. You need something to sit at the middle, whether it is a desktop app/server (Outlook/Exchange) or a service like .Mac. But yep, it's going to remain like that until we actually have something *else* -- a universal identity infrastructure that lets us tie together these disparate apps, and have them understand the users/groups/security settings we want to have around our data. |
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