Improffice Pulls Google Contacts Into Facebook
Just days before an expected announcement of Office-like functionality on Facebook, the proprietor of Improffice leaks that he's programmed a way to migrate contacts from Google to the social network
The battle over Gmail contact migration into Facebook just got an interesting twist: Improffice, a six-month-old startup that appears to consist of only Eduardo Fernandez, has put together an application that pulls contacts from Google into the social network.
Now pay attention to the timing of this disclosure: The Friday before a press conference that might involve “Office-like functionality” on Facebook.
The contact migration tool is the creation of a 26-year-old — the same age as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerman — in Chicago, who had already been working on helping companies move information from Gmail to Google App accounts, and moving more of said data from App account to App account.
Fernandez’s
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