Card.ly Creates Attractive Online Business Cards in a Jiffy [Address Book]
Web site Card.ly allows you to collect all of your contact information—online and off—into one simple, linkable “business card” you can share with anyone.
The site’s pretty simple. You just sign up, fill in whatever information you want to pull into a centralized “business card”, and you’re ready to go. When you’re finished, you’ll get a [...]
Video: augmented reality business card sells itself
Does your feeble mind recall those wicked awesome 3D Topps cards from earlier this year? How could you forget, right? It seems as if that very same technology has been shifted over to the wine and cheese crowd, and thanks to one James Alliban, now those all-too-boring business cards can also be equipped with augmented [...]
Feed aggregator Netvibes launches new tools to become real-time dashboard
Netvibes, the service that lets users customize a homepage with their RSS, social network, Twitter and email feeds, among other widgets, has introduced several new tools in a push to become a real-time dashboard for users’ online lives.
Starting today, Netvibes users can click on any one of their friends, a screen name, hashtag, etc., drag [...]
Will Wright Talks Educational Gaming, Funny Money [Will Wright]
The Chronicle of Higher Education sat down recently with Will Wright to talk to him about the value of educational games. Not only did they get some great money quotes, they got some great money business cards!
The interview starts off with Wright showing off his new business cards, which he’s had printed on replicas [...]
Adobe Wave: Lets publishers “wave” hi to users directly from the desktop
Adobe announced a product today called Adobe Wave that lets publishers notify their users of updates directly on their desktop, in the latest effort by a large company to get in on the real-time notification craze.
Readers opt-in for the updates. For example, if you’re a reader of VentureBeat, and want VentureBeat article links to appear [...]
Speeding Up RSS
I’m sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news [...]
Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]
