FriendCSV lets you export all your friends' vital data — user ID, name, sex, birthday, about information, current location, hometown, profile URL, portrait URL, high school, education, work experience, and affiliations — to an Excel file for mass manipulation. Facebook forces you to type in their email addresses yourself, but whatever. FriendCSV is a marketer, promoter or analyst's dream: Take all the info people are typing and clicking into Facebook's irrational interface, and load it into the world's favorite data analysis and manipulation tool. Oh, and when Google launches its Facebook killer, no doubt you'll be able to upload the file into it, saving me the aggravation of reconfirming for the fourth time that yes, John Markoff is my friend. (Image by TechCrunch)

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