Find My Friends module
Hi all drupal-gurus,
I'm wondering if people can point me in the direction of a module that will help people find their existing real-life friends by checking their existing Hotmail, Gmail, Facebook or any other e-mail account??? A feature that we see as a standard 2nd step after registration in Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter and a 1000+ other websites..
I'm running a community-driven website, which has some social networking features.
But this is what I notice: people create their account and then don't know quite what to do. Very often they'll go to "Community" link which is nothing more than something like www.drupal.org/profile -- they go there in search of people they already know. This is what we humans do when we first walk into a room full of strangers: look for someone we already know in real life.
I'm wondering if there is a module that will let you enter your e-mail username, choose the e-mail provider (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and why not Facebook), let you enter your password, and then go out there into user's e-mail addressbook, or Facebook friends list, get those e-mail addresses, compare these e-mail addresses with those of the already registred users, and finally present you with a list with an avatars, usernames on the site and their "real names" in the e-mail addressbook ... with an option to "+ Add to my Friends" (integration with Buddylist or User Relations).
Is there such a module??? It's really one those features that is a MUST on any site full of strangers.
The module that I found to be closest to this kind of behaviour is DCL_importer, BUT, it's in .dev, it doesn't look like it has been updated in a long time, it's results interface is NOT intuitive and NOT user-friendly, AND is only for fetching the e-mail's addressbook and inviting new members.
thanks a lot for any help or tps you can give!!!

great idea!
and of course, the logical next step is to integrate with invitations (simple ones or trackable like with invite module)
could be a feature request for 'invite module' imho...though ask nicely, they're busy...
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i love to waste time: http://twitter.com/passingnotes
sounds like a module that
sounds like a module that send "I am here .." PM to other member on his/her MSN (or others) buddy list.
interesting..
but there is a basic issue ...
if u want the Drypal module to get your, say MSN buddy list, u have to give your password to the module.
this is a security issue. ...;-(