Avatargrabber: automagically add avatars to your contacts

Alfredo Morresi describes how he implemented a spider that adds avatars to your addressbook, scraping them from popular social networking sites and syncs them with Funambol server. His wors has beens sponsored by Funambol Code Sniper Program.

Funambol

Funambol, the world's leading cross-platform mobile open source project, is holding its first developer workshop on November 25, 2008, in Milan, Italy at Politecnico di Milano. The meeting's purpose is to provide a forum for Funambol community members, including researchers, students and development partners to meet in person. The aim is to conduct an open discussion about mobile synchronization and content push, Funambol technology, future plans and ways to improve community interaction.