Xoopit for Gmail now lets Gmail users immediately see and set Facebook® status messages and view the profile photos of their Facebook friends while reading mail, using Facebook Connect. Need something to say in reply to someone? Now their Facebook status is right at your fingtertips. Not sure what a new contact looks like? No need to do a web search, you often get their profile picture right next to your mail.
Activating Facebook inside Xoopit for Gmail is simple.
1. You can activate your ability to set your Facebook status messages inside Gmail by clicking on the new Facebook 'F' icon in the upper right hand corner of Gmail. Click on the Facebook Connect button to login to your Facebook account.
2. Set your status on Facebook by using the 'F' icon which you used to login to Facebook Connect.
3. Your Gmail Messages with people who are also on Facebook will now contain their Facebook profile photos, status messages. Facebook profile photos and status messages are located to the right of your Gmail messages in the light blue "In this conversation" box. If you click on 'more info' you can also see the user's birthday and other information like mobile phone numbers.
Note, you can use these features without signing up for the Xoopit for Gmail indexing service. You do however have to sign in via Facebook Connect. And as with all Xoopit for Gmail features, you can use this on Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps accounts.
Have fun using Facebook with Xoopit for Gmail and as always, please send us feeback!
Don't have Xoopit? Download Xoopit for Gmail here.
I just installed xoopit and for file, video and photo management, it's great!
However, I don't seem to have the "F" for the Facebook connect thingy. It is possible it's only available in the English interface?
K
Posted by: K | February 13, 2009 at 01:31 PM
@K You should be able to see it in any language. Somethings to check: (1) did you restart browser after installing addon, (2) you can try clearing your cache (Tools > Clear Private Data) and then reloading gmail, (3) we've noticed some issues with ad blocking software. Let me know if those solve it.
Posted by: Jonathan Katzman | February 13, 2009 at 01:59 PM
So I accidentally clicked the 'remove this message' link on the new Facebook feature, and now I can't get it back?!? I've tried clearing cache and reloading but that didn't work? Any ideas??
Posted by: Jay | February 13, 2009 at 04:11 PM
@Jay: If you go to your Gmail Settings page and select the Xoopit tab, there is a "Enable Facebook Integration" checkbox that you can use to enable the feature once it has been disabled. You can only access this page with a Xoopit account.
If you don't have a Xoopit account, you can still re-enable the Facebook feature by typing "about:config" into your URL bar in Firefox, right-clicking on "xoopitforgmail.gff.xoopit.com-www.xoopit.com_FB" and choosing "Reset".
Posted by: Jerry | February 13, 2009 at 05:12 PM
When will Xoopit be available for Chrome?
Posted by: Digital Doctor | February 13, 2009 at 06:17 PM
@Digital Doctor We'd like to support Chrome. It depends on their support of an extension system like what Firefox has.
Posted by: Jonathan Katzman | February 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM
selam...
Posted by: ilyas bekaroglu | February 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM
When I clicked on the "facebook connect" button, it disapeared without any facebook status bar.
Since, I disinstalled the firefox extension and reinstalled it and nothing happens.
I tried to empty the cache too, without results.
Do you have any Idea to help me ?
Posted by: griffoooo | February 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM
@griffoooo try the instructions to at @Jay above
Posted by: Jonathan Katzman | February 17, 2009 at 09:48 AM
It would be great if you guys could write a fluid/cruz script and post it at userscripts.org.
Thanks,
Duke
Posted by: Duke | February 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM
@Duke Thanks for the suggestion. As we expand from Firefox we'll definitely keep that in mind.
Posted by: Jonathan Katzman | February 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM
The plug in was working just great for a few days. Now today, its not. The right side search bar (on search results page) just hovers covering over gmail content. Happening on all my machines.
Posted by: John | February 19, 2009 at 07:54 AM
I have installed Xoopit for gmail and am
disappointed and confused. It catalogs all the stuff in my thrash, and that makes up most of what I see. It has no options where I could
modify this behavior, and I don't see any
options in Gmail to get rid of Xoopit.
Posted by: Peter Gacs | March 11, 2009 at 07:08 AM
Just discovered your service. Can't do it at the moment as I won't give my password to a third-party site. But I will feed your blog and see if you can get Google to give you access without using users' private info.
Looks great, and I'm looking forward to the password issue being resolved.
Posted by: Ozy | March 14, 2009 at 05:17 AM
Can you explain what the mechanism is that causes a new file to be added to the files list? I've emailed myself a new PDF file attachment, and it won't show up in the files list. But pictures show up fine in the photo list. Any hints?
Posted by: RockDoggy | March 21, 2009 at 06:18 PM
@RockDoggy - can you email us at support@xoopit.com so we can help you diagnose the issue? what you are reporting shouldn't be happening.
Posted by: Jonathan Katzman | March 23, 2009 at 01:21 PM