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fbCal - Freeing Facebook Finally!
Ever notice that there's a missing feature on Facebook? Ok, it's not the ability to be able to add 5.001 friends. Get over it, nobody can have that many friends.The real feature that's missing is an event calendar! Sure, we know whose birthday it is every day when we log in, and sure we know when the next event is because we get 83 emails reminding us, but where's the event calendar???
Well, fbCal solves that all. With a simple install of the Facebook app, it creates feeds that you can pull into iCal, Google Calendar, Sunbird or Outlook. In TWO separate feeds, too. One for birthdays and one for events. External access to events is something a lot of people have been waiting for.
Never again can you forget to get your best friend a birthday icon from the Facebook store for her 35th birthday that she's really upset about and wants to spend it alone on Facebook the whole night. Don't ask.
You can either download a file and import, or subscribe to the feed and it will sync like the wind. Like a very fast technological wind. Whatever that means.
This was built by a gent named Robert M. Baldwin, and we salute you!
[via the inquisitr]
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Subscribe to commentsNeilMay 29th 2008 1:13PM
Facebook already has this feature...just go to events and then hit the Export Events link, it'll popup a little window with an iCal link.
Alex HillmanMay 29th 2008 2:34PM
Facebook has an export, but not a "subscribe". That's the killer feature right there. Any time new events are added to my facebook account, they'll show up in iCal.
Fantastic!
NeilMay 30th 2008 12:28PM
If you subscribe to the link that the export dialogue gives you it'll automatically update -- I've been using this feature in iCal for about six months and I haven't had to touch the export button since I set it up.