The Student Facebook is now called the Student Directory. I thought it might be valuable to have the entire list of the Class of 2006 in my Treo, so yesterday evening I started down a lengthy path of exploring contacts and the Facebook.
It wasn't too difficult to capture the entire Class of 2006 thanks to the download option in the Facebook and then import into Outlook for syncing to the Treo. I did have to mess with the 15 category limit for a bit though...
Then I thought it might be interesting to have the Facebook images included in the Outlook contact files in the contact picture area... I spent some time figuring out the html structure in the Facebook pages (unfortunately it only displays 20 people at a time, so the use of mouse macros came in handy).
Ahh, I must say this was an interesting project and I'm pleased with the results, but because I don't want to incriminate myself I'll just end it here. I may bring this up as an 'idea' to the Dean's Office and see what the response is. Unfortunately I'm a little concerned about possible legal obstacles to what would be the most logical use of the information.
Posted by Jeremy Showalter at September 6, 2004 12:44 PM