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Bump Adds LinkedIn to Improve It’s Virtual Business Card

August 8, 2010

in Mobile, Networking

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Bump (web, twitter), the mobile app for Android and iOs mobile platforms, has recently upgraded its service by adding your LinkedIn profile to the information you can share (or “bump”) with other people.
As the official website describes, “Bump is a quick and easy way to connect two phones, simply bump them together. Share contacts [...]

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My Name is E connects People and Objects in the Physical World

June 27, 2009

in Interview, Networking, Software, Tools

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You might think that My Name is E, a Dutch startup, is just an service related to the exchange of social business cards like the that of competitors Poken and Mingle360. While this is true, it is only half of the story. Today it is basically an online platform that allows people to share [...]

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Use BuddyPress to create a Social Network around your conference

May 25, 2009

in Community, Networking, Software, Tools

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BuddyPress is a new suite of plugins for WordPress MU (the multi-user version of WordPress) that adds new features that transform your blog/website into a Social Network. These features allow event organizers to support their own community (or build one) with a professional social networking layer, making your conference/s live before, during and after the [...]

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The quality of the conversation vs. the quantity of participants

May 4, 2009

in Networking

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When talking about a conference, past or present, one of the first questions asked is the number of attendees involved. It seems that an event for 3.000 people is better than one for 30. Apart from events that live through selling tickets, in which the amount of units sold is one of the main metrics [...]

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Poken as a digital social business card for conferences?

April 17, 2009

in Networking, Tools

The Poken is a small cute electronic gadget resembling a USB key that according to the small Swiss company that created it can become your social business card.

It is based on RFID technology and it allows you to share your online social profiles like LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace or instant messaging contact like MSN (much more services are added frequently through Poken’s powerful API that does not require the company to make a partnership agreement with the websites involved).

The Poken resembles a japanized creature with a white four-fingered hand. To connect to a friend you simply have to do a “high-four” between two Poken’s little hands. A light will blink showing the result of the connection and the data communication lasts about one second (it can hold up to 64 profiles at once inside the memory of the Poken). It even has a “discreet mode” so that you can fake a connection with people you don’t really want to share your information with.

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