“Using Soocial to keep contacts in sync”

One of our faithful users, Carlos Eduardo, has written a blog post about his setup using Soocial to keep his address books in sync. Read it here.

Great to see Carlos capture (part of) our vision in one sentence:

  • [Soocial's] objective is to have a central platform and from it sync to multiple points via web APIs or local applications.

Let me add to that by saying that it’s key to provide a user-friendly and open solution to the way all of us, are currently using our address books. Foremost Soocial is a humble tool that works in the background to serve you correctly.

Another point is interesting is that Carlos is using Exchange in his setup as well. Carlos uses Exchange to sync his iPhone directly to his Google Account. (Suggestion to Carlos: you might want to try out Synthesis SyncML in the appstore for that, it’s free!).

We get many questions from (potential) users, how Soocial is better than Exchange or this or that and our standard answer is that we aren’t. We are not a replacement for Exchange, we are just different. One of the goals is to work alongside other solutions like Exchange, Plaxo, Google Sync or MobileMe and fill in the gaps that these solutions don’t cover.

We’ll be filling more gaps in the weeks to come, so stay tuned!


This entry was written by Stefan Fountain and posted on September 16, 2009 at 17:20 and filed under Home. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Martin Skytte
    Posted September 17, 2009 at 07:45 | Permalink

    When using the new Outlook version all my contacts changed the “save as” from first name – last name to Company. I have treied to change then back manually but Soocial seem to change it back. How can this be resolved?

  2. Stefan Fountain
    Posted September 18, 2009 at 17:32 | Permalink

    Hi Martin,

    Good question and one that has an answer too. ;-)
    The solution is simple and covered here: http://getsatisfaction.com/soocial/topics/file_as_last_first

    Hope that helps.

  3. James Mills
    Posted September 29, 2009 at 12:07 | Permalink

    Hiya,

    I also use Soocial with the Exchange sync on my Nokia N96. Because I use Google for my main calendar I use the Google Mobile Sync to sync my calendar with my phone. Because I use this its better for me to use the same tool to sync my contacts. So I sync my contacts on my phone with Google.

    The great thing about Soccial is I can sync soocial with my google contacts… My contacts in Soocial are also synced with outlook on many pc’s and laptops…

    I am not using the Soocial mobile sync option but Soocial really really works for me and is saving me so much time. Its an awesome service and the best I have found (I have been hunting for something like this for about 6 years).

    Cheers,

    James