May. 6, 2009 - http://www.google.com/contacts

I believe yesterday Google rolled out a new feature that has a world of promise and yet seems so insignificant on the surface; Google Contacts. There has been this feature built into Gmail that lets you import your contacts from Outlook and well that’s about all it did. Now Google has decided to separate the two so that Contacts is its own entity.

This also has some other interesting social networking aspects or at least it will in the future. Your contact list will soon become your social circle as more and more people adopt Google services and applications. The goal here is of course total domination in everything we do and use on the internet which seems to be what Google always was going for. Evil plans aside it seems useful to me.

What else would be nice is a way to sync all your stuff together. Currently Google offers a way to sync your calendars between Outlook and Gmail but it also lets you two way sync your stuff between computers using Outlook which is what I use it for. I have been waiting for contacts sync for years because of Outlooks shortcomings in this area. Why on earth is it so hard to sync all your mail, contacts and calendars between two computers using outlook? (Let alone 3 computers in my situation!!!!) Well with the calendar sync I managed to kill a few birds but if they full integrate contact sync then I am almost set. But seriously Microsoft how freakin’ hard would it be to use an internet connection to sync this crap natively? Someday I won’t have 11,000 emails on my laptop because the ones I delete on my office PC will delete off my laptop. (Honestly that day may never come with how slow Microsoft is) But in my lifetime I would seriously like to see these 3 things seamlessly sync between computers. That’s the joy of using Gmail and Google products, while you need internet access (currently until Gears is more widespread), the applications act as a central location so any changes made there are made to the main account. How hard is that Microsoft?

You can check out this app that says it will drop a Beta release that syncs contacts. I signed up.

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