1. Facebook Nofitications in GMail

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    This script now integrates properly with both GMail and Google Reader. Reinstall and enjoy :)

    "What?" you say, "You don't use Facebook, Stephen, you're so cool and geeky!" Ah, but unfortunately not all of my friends are, and I have been drawn in to the service. Mind you, I don't spend hours reading the profiles of people I don't know ;) I do use it, however.

    There's one thing I've always hated about Facebook — the notifications system. Many too many emails flooding my inbox about what is happening, either that or I have to check the site regularly. No RSS on the things you actually want notifications of. Worst of all messages, the one thing you REALLY need notification of, won't even send you an email.

    The 'official' solution is to install the Facebook toolbar. I tried it, it's nice, but I don't use the service enough to warrant that screen real-estate OR that memory usage.

    My solution is a Greasemonkey script. It integrates notifications of messages, group invites, event invites, and friend requests into the side of your GMail view. Install the script, go to GMail, click the Facebook logo and log in. For best results, check the 'remember me' checkbox (funny, you can't have it remember you for logging in to the site, but for a third-party script you can…). Go back to your GMail and click the link that appeared where the Facebook logo used to be. Voila. If you checked the box, next time you go to GMail it should just display the notifications without intervention from yourself.

    Die email notifications!

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    Stephen Weber at 2007-04-20 11:21 | 14 Comments / Trackbacks
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    1. Comment at 2007-04-20 23:51 by INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Aditya
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      Interesting use of the API… integrating it with GMail is a good idea. But not everyone uses GMail's web-interface (for eg.: me :P). However, something that a lot of people use (and your FeedBurner stats will confirm this) is Google Reader.

      Also, it makes sense to keep all your 'internet' updates in one place :) So, maybe you could tweak it to work with that? Or maybe generate an RSS which one could subscribe to in GReader?

      Just my two cents…

    2. Comment at 2007-04-21 08:05 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Stephen Paul Weber
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      @Adit - A GReader port shouldn't be too hard… I'll look into it! :)

    3. Comment at 2007-04-21 11:49 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Stephen Paul Weber
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      This script now integrates properly with both GMail and Google Reader. Reinstall and enjoy :)

    4. Comment at 2007-04-21 12:17 by INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Aditya
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      Beautiful! :D

    5. Comment at 2007-04-21 12:25 by INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Aditya
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      Ok, quickly …. . Any fixes?

    6. Comment at 2007-04-21 12:25 by INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Aditya
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      Umm… the link didn't go through :( Here — http://aditya.vm.googlepages.com/sshot-18.png

    7. Comment at 2007-04-21 12:33 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Stephen Paul Weber
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      Sorry — fixed :)

    8. Comment at 2007-04-21 23:34 by INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Aditya
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      Now I get this … "facebook_gmail_stuff_container.gmail_facebook_fb has no properties" :(

    9. Comment at 2007-04-23 07:41 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Stephen Paul Weber
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      Alright, I've done a full debug on the login process — should work now :)

    10. Comment at 2007-05-16 04:58 by SWEDEN Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Johan Sundström
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      Perhaps you should make http://singpolyma.net/greasemonkey/fbgmail (linked from the Facebook initial API login page) redirect here or to http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8530?

    11. Comment at 2007-05-16 16:42 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 Stephen Paul Weber
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      Good call Johan! I had meant to make a page there and never got to it… :)

    12. Comment at 2007-11-09 15:41 by UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 dexter
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      sadly this no longer works with the new gmail interface… any fixes forseen?

    13. Comment at 2007-11-20 11:13 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 Stephen Paul Weber
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      @dexter — working on it :)

    14. Comment at 2007-11-20 11:34 by CANADA Ubuntu Linux Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 Stephen Paul Weber
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      Tada! http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/14247

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