I’ve been investigation different kinds of calendar sync possibilities, and of-course mainly iCal<->Google Calendar sync. In addition to this it would be sweet to then sync my mobile with the iCal, and thus get all synced. The problem with mobile sync is that we have OpenExcange at work…and it sucks (could be that it is not tuned right, but…I can not recommend it to anyone). As I started doing this I found myself syncing my address book first, but here is some of the syncing i found out googling (have not tried them yet):

• http://spanningsync.com/
• gsync – http://www.macness.com/blog/
• applescripts – http://www.ekive.com/googleicalimport/install.html
• www.plaxo.com – this one is the first one I’ll try

Removing/merging duplicate contacts

I have already registered with Plaxo – using OpenID of course and installed the thunderbird plugin for syncing the address book. I also linked my Google address book and LinkedIn contacts, and all seems to work out well. Now I have close to 700 contacts, and probably a lot of duplicates. Well time to get rid of those…and here comes the money. I have to pay 50$ just for the removing of duplicates. No way, that’s just too much. I could pay 10$ but not 50 a year, so I have to find another solution: Thunderbird Duplicate Contact Manager. I’m just now in the middle of processing all my contact on Thunderbird address book with the duplicate manager -tool, and it works like a charm.

I remember that we had a duplicate manager for Midgard’s OpenPSA – see Henri Bergius blog posting – that would have been sweet to use. I have talk to the Nemein boys and see if this could be published as a service perhaps? I have used the tool for campaigns, and it worked like a charm then.

Sync of calendar

This will be a different posting…I have to investigate a bit first.

MTV3 – the largest TV channel in finland has an interstitial (I think it’scalled that) on the intro page. Today it was an ad about a program on the rival channels list. Here is an image explaining it all.

Enjoy

I finally got a memory card to my N95 so now Nokia Sports Tracker works. My first mapping is then small traces when I was walking the dog, but everything seemed to work ok. Have to play around with different editors to see which one I will use in the future. The Helsinki area is prety well mapped, but there is a lot of mapping to do in other places. It was fun and really simple. Now off to bed…

Now I finally have most of my stuff linked to lifestrea.ms, but something does not feel quite right. It may be that I have not quite had the time to concentrate with the platform, but here are my thoughts at the moment:

• where is my APML if I want to get it
• logging in with OpenID from wordpress does not work
  • it just claims that I have to log in to WP first..
• too much stuff…not a good UI, or then I’m using it the wrong way?
• …

Well I will still keep putting stuff into here, but perhaps compare it with Jaiku? I could of-course wake up my old Midgard website, but it should be updated and I just do not have the time nor the energy. This spring will be really intresting times with Midgard, especially the plans with APML will be a intresting chapter.

Quite an intresting article and definitely a step into the right direction: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/goog-fb-data.php 

After a long non-active time, I decided to do something about my digital footprint. This means that I’ll collect all my stuff under lifestrea.ms and then start a blog. Lifestrea.ms is still in private beta, but it seems quite nice and I’ll blog more about it when I have played with it for a while. Now it’s mostly a lot of setting up and linking stuff… It’s actually quite intresting when one really starts to think about all the places one has left a digital footprint in. A lot of services, passwords, images, blog entries etc. My goal is to get them collected, but in the APML way. I own my data!