Retaggr - make your own interactive business card

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Retaggr - make your own interactive business card

by Dolores Parker May 31st 2008

Retaggr takes the concept of paper business cards and transforms them into Harry Potter like interactive cards. Beyond the benefits of not killing trees to leave your contact information, an interactive card is sooo multi dimensional. With your Retaggr card you can:

Show your recent Twitter messages
Link to your blogs, web profiles such as Facebook
Display your online activity on other sites like FriendFeed, Flickr, etc.
Add any web widget
Allow others to get in touch with you via Skype, MSN, Gtalk, etc.

Whereas paper cards are static, your profile card instantly updates as you update information on your various social networks. Also, when you leave comments on other Retaggr enabled sites, your profile card is left there too. If someone mentions you in a post, they can link to you so your card automagically appears.

A profile card provides more context to what you're about and what you're up to. And that is the other edge of the sword. (Cue scary music). How much information do you want people to have at their fingertips anyway?

Tags: interactive business cards, InteractiveBusinessCards, Retaggr, Web 2.0 social profiling, Web2.0SocialProfiling

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Unregistered said 8:22AM on 6-01-2008

How long till bots start harvesting all our info?!

Peter said 8:47AM on 6-01-2008

It's probably already happening.

TylerM said 10:00PM on 6-01-2008

I doesn't ask for your password to any of your accounts just displays what's public.

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