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Just been to conferences in Frankfurt and Copenhagen, and that rings too true…
What’s also daft is when you get cards from multiple people from the same company, at the same time!
… provided the person you’re talking to has a device on hand that can receive it!
Yes, Tom & Kevin. “Contact exchange” is a topic that has been handled poorly over decades now. Aside from the real-world usability issues, there is one main technological problem when dealing with digital contact information:
Many devices and tools support vCard as a format, but vCard isn’t even a save technical standard. Instead, each vendor creates it’s own version of it, creating incompatibilities between devices and thus spoiling the whole effort of exchanging contacts. It’s almost funny that the world hasn’t yet agreed on how to describe a person or a company so that the description is independent of it’s use.
As long as this is unsolved, I guess that vendors coming up with beautifully usable solutions (like Palm) will keep on creating islands that are disconnected from the rest of the world.
One reason I didn’t bring a business card, a computer, or a camera. Closest thing to “exchanging” was “umm..like…here’s my name badge - Hi I’m Dustin”
And hey, that black woman on the right looks like Laura Swisher http://images.google.com/images?q=laura%20swisher
Hey, speaking of this where did a contact site function go? Whats going on ith your perfect job postings? have you lost the will to live?
The jobs section on ok was perfect and there isnt another one place online for us all like it!
Has it gone on vacation or died completely!
Sorry to ask!
Probably missed the crucial thread!
PS
Agree the v card reply! How mnay people actually do that!
I like pens. they work really well.
Cheers for the work.
> Hey, speaking of this where did a contact site function go? Whats going on ith your perfect job postings? have you lost the will to live?
What contact site function are you referring to? You mean how to contact us? That’s in the about section.
As for the jobs board, it’s sleeping. We want to bring it back better than ever.
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