Fosimo

Fosimo 0.9.9 is Available - Shows Friends Online Presence Status

Anatoly Lubarsky — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.9.9 is the latest release of my Facebook desktop application for windows. You can download it here. It's 1 year now since Fosimo initial release.

Here is Fosimo about page on Facebook.

New in Fosimo 0.9.9

Starting from 0.9.9 and later Fosimo shows your Facebook friends online presence status - active, idle or offline.

Here are some key features of "Fosimo":

View friends online presence.
View friends details.
Synchronize Facebook friends with matching OUTLOOK contacts. For windows mobile devices owners - you should be able to see your contacts photos on your phone display.
Upload photos without surfing through Facebook.
Change Facebook status.
Be notified on invites and changes to your account.

Enjoy :)

Fosimo 0.9.4 - Autoupdate

Anatoly Lubarsky — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.9.4 is the latest release of the Facebook desktop client for windows. You can download it for free here.

Here is Fosimo about page on Facebook.

Autoupdate

Starting from 0.9.4 and later Fosimo supports autoupdate. Fosimo will update itself automagically each time the new version is up there. Therefore this desktop application would be protected from the breaking changes of Facebook API which happen once in a while.

Enjoy :)

Fosimo 0.9.3 - Sync Facebook™ with OUTLOOK®

Anatoly Lubarsky — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:18:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.9.3 is available. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook™ desktop client for windows. See Fosimo about page on Facebook.

Fosimo 0.9.3

It's about time for the new release of Fosimo :) Exactly 3 months have passed since the last release (0.9.2).

New in this release:

Friends List

Now it is possible to view all your friends in a list and to observe each one of your friends profiles. "My Friends" in context menu.

Sync Facebook™ with OUTLOOK®

Fosimo is able to synchronize your Facebook™ friend details with your OUTLOOK. It will update OUTLOOK® contact details of your matching Facebook™ friend.

Important to note:

Fosimo does not synchronize Facebook™ friend contact details (like email, address, etc...).
Fosimo synchronizes matched entries.
If matching OUTLOOK® contact does not exist Fosimo would suggest to create one. User has to enter friend details in this case.

Enjoy :)

Fosimo Passed 1000 Users Milestone

Anatoly Lubarsky — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:37:00 GMT

It's about time for me to post here. It's been a while since my last post. Good news first.

Fosimo has reached 1000 users mark a while ago. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows. Even now half year after the launch - this is the only program like this that will show status updates for friends.

The latest version is 0.9.2 proved to be stable, however I plan to launch next version soon. It will include some major features this time. Stay tuned...

Fosimo 0.9.2 - Run on Startup Option

Anatoly Lubarsky — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:36:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.9.2 is available. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows.

In this release:

Run on startup configuration option. Default is false.
Added 0.25 hours status relevancy, so Fosimo could be easily configured to show status change only once if needed. It can be done by setting status relevancy less or equal to monitor status frequency.
Extended permissions links added to configuration.
Overall improvements and some graphic changes.

Some killer features will be available in the upcoming versions. Stay tuned...

Fosimo 0.9.1 - Set Facebook Status (Set Extended Permissions)

Anatoly Lubarsky — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:02:00 GMT

Fosimo killer version...

Fosimo 0.9.1 is available. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows.

Whats new ? Set status

In this release:

Set status. Now it is possible to set your Facebook status and not via browser (or mobile). One can imagine what can integrate with Facebook status in the future versions...

To enable this feature user has to configure extended permissions on Facebook and opt-in:

Upload photos without approval. Fosimo has photos uploading support for a while now however photos uploaded with 3rd parties required additional approval by the user on Facebook. Now the user can opt-in via extended permissions to enable Fosimo upload photos without additional approval.

Enjoy :)

Fosimo 0.9 is Available; Facebook Platform Unstable

Anatoly Lubarsky — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:43:00 GMT

Fosimo new version

Fosimo 0.9 is available. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows.

In this release:

Overall fixes.
Default status monitor interval increased to 15 minutes. This feature is configurable, however the change of the default setting comes as a result of fine tuning.
Max 5 status updates shown at once. People with hundreds and even thousands of friends will usually have more than 5 friends status updates, however 5 is the number that fits the screen and readable at a glance.

Facebook platform on Decline

I just wanted to mention that I was kinda frustrated with the stability of Facebook platform during the last weeks. It is not stable at all - giving errors and timeouts and issues all over the platform. Developers already started to implement workarounds around some features that proved to be sensitive. The trouble is that application users just think that application is unstable or something.

Facebook applications statistics is half broken, application directory search does not work for new applications, etc. I have a strong feeling that their own arrogance would kill them. I'm in doubt that facebook people do really realize this, given the huge hype they get from the media. They fix only critical issues and don't care about "minor". On the other hand they do implement new features on the platform, many times breaking backward compatibility and introducing some weird stuff. Like "Facebook Javascript". WTF man ?

Sigh

Fosimo 0.8.7 - Search Facebook Friends by Name (with Autocomplete)

Anatoly Lubarsky — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:47:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.8.7 is available. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later). Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows.

In this release:

Search functionality provided. Now it is possible to search your Facebook friends by name (with dynamic autocomplete) - functionality that is actually missing from the core Facebook (or API). Search is supposed to be fast and to work just the same for superconnectors - Facebook users with thousands of friends.

There is a new menu item called "Search Friends" in the context menu:

"Fosimo - Search Friends" window will open with autocomplete search textbox:

After finding one can view user profile - more functionality is added to this window in the current version (see screenshot):

Enjoy :)

Fosimo 0.8.6 is Available - Friend Details

Anatoly Lubarsky — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:53:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.8.6 Released. Fosimo 0.8.6 is a Facebook Desktop Client for Windows. You can download it for free here.

In this release:

When "Friend status update" notification window shows up - it is possible to click on the photo - and navigate to your friend's details (including current status). "Friend Details" window is similar to "My Profile" window from the context menu. Currently there are some basic details, however more fields will be added in the upcoming versions.
Overall fixes and improvements.

Enjoy :)

Fosimo 0.8.5 - Create Photo Albums on Facebook

Anatoly Lubarsky — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:49:00 GMT

Fosimo 0.8.5 Released. Fosimo 0.8.5 is a Facebook Desktop Client for Windows. You can download it for free here (requires .NET Framework 2.0 or later).

In this release:

Starting from the version 0.8.3 Fosimo has been able to Upload Photos to Facebook. Now it is also possible to create photo albums via Fosimo and upload photos to Facebook without browsing through Facebook. All these via simple interface:

Enjoy :)