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I recently consolidated all of my contacts accumulated from my iPhone, Gmail, Linkedin, Facebook, and Plaxo into a master list in Google Contacts. I did this following most of the guidelines in this Lifehacker guide (Lifehack is one of my favorite sites). There are numerous ways to consolidate contacts but this is one of the best and easiest. Some issues encountered including using the Greasemonkey script to scrape contact information from Facebook due to the stupid notice at the top of the Facebook phonebook page. Instead of hacking and fixing the script I consolidated contacts with the new Facebook iPhone app that syncs pictures, birthdays, and links to profiles automatically with your phonebook which is all I really need.
Another issue encountered was merging duplicate contacts. Google does a very good job of finding duplicates but includes a lot of email addresses as contacts. Also there are many duplicates that do not get handled properly because most of the time in my personal phonebook I either misspelled a persons name or had a nickname for them. This created issues when some people called it shows their email address or wrong name instead of the real name of the person calling. It is always good to get all your contacts backed up and consolidated in case you ever loose your phone and then have to be one of those people who starts a lame group on Facebook asking for numbers. I share my phone number to friends now on Facebook, you can download my vcard with all my contact information on my personal site, and you should backup your contacts in the first place so I better not be getting anymore of those group invites. It is pretty sweet having all of my contacts in one place complete with name, number, email, job title, picture, websites, and whatever else I could dig up haha.
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