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Outlook Social Connector for Twitter


I’ve been testing the new version of Office 2010 (or Office 14) for some time now. One of the new features in the Outlook program is the possibility to integrate with social networks through the means of social providers. Currently out-of-the-box there is a provider for Microsoft Sharepoint and a strategic partnership with LinkedIn to provide a provider for their network.

However you are free to develop your own osc (outlook social connector) providers. Currently I’m trying to write one for integrating Twitter. It’s going nicely, but it’s not finished yet. I’ve hit some bumps along the road and with some feedback from the friendly devs over at Microsoft I’m now finishing the first version of an ‘Outlook Social Connector for Twitter’. When it is finished I promise to release the entire code on Codeplex as a real world reference sample for other developers to create osc providers.

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  • Jeremy

    Fantastic! I look forward to trying it out.

  • suddenelfilio

    Hello Jeremy,

    I’m running a bit behind on my promise here, but I will try to free up some time in the coming month or so to finish the reference implementation.

  • http://twitter.com/AntonyRus Antony

    I’m waiting for it! Thank You!

  • http://www.5limes.com.au Richard Hauer

    There is a Twitter OSC project already started on CodePlex at http://twosc.codeplex.com. There doesn’t seem to be much there yet. I’m sure they will appreciate a contribution and you may get some assistence completing the project.

  • http://twitter.com/anchen_me Anna

    Good luck with your development endevour.
    It’ll be nice to have the Twitter provider in addition to Facebook and LinkedIn ones that are already available.
    By the way, one more provider has been developed, and this one is for Salesforce Chatter. It’s called Chatter provider and is released by InvisibleCRM. You can find more information on it on the InvisibleCRM web site – http://www.invisiblecrm.com.

  • Brad Bosley

    Stas, did you ever end up doing more work on the twitter connector for OSC?  I’m thinking of building one for an internal status.net server that we have which happens to mimic the twitter API.  Since it is more of a side project, I was hoping to be able to build upon someoneelse’s work (even if it is partial).  If you do have any code you can share it would be much appreciated.

  • http://www.suddenelfilio.net Suddenelfilio

    I started, but never got very far. I also did not kept the code, sorry :-)