Digital alternatives to paper business cards
10 August 2010 | By Andrew in YourSite Newsletter
Somehow I don’t think the humble business card is in danger of extinction just yet! But for the more adventurous these might alternatives -
1 For the insanely busy there is a company called CloudContacts. Send them your paper business cards you have collected at a conference, and CloudContacts will actually type up all the information on them. Then all you have to do is export the data to Microsoft Outlook, Facebook or another digital address book, and you’re set.
2 There is an application on the iPhone where you physically bump two phones together (they don’t actually have to touch) and your contact details are magically passed through the air. Really it’s true!
3 Remember the electonic pets called Tamagotchi? It’s back. You can wirelessly exchange contact information and social networks with another Poken user by “high-fouring,” or touching the paw-like RFID connectors together. To download your new contacts, you insert the Poken in your computer’s USB port . You heard it here.