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Gist is a social media and personal relationship aggregator

GistThe gist of Gist is that it's a web service that connects your various social media networks with your personal contact information to give you an enhanced view of your connections, and hopefully let the most relevant information rise to the top. It's a sort of filter, with the goal of helping you manage the information overload that is inherent in belonging to multiple social networks.

Okay; the temptation to abuse the word "gist" in this post is overwhelming, but I will now do my best to fight it off.

The power of Gist is its ability to import all of your contacts from your networks and personal contacts. It can then analyze them for overlaps, and surface news about the companies that are associated with your contacts. Currently it can import from LinkedIn, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, Outlook, Gmail, Email/IMAP, and even simple CSV files of contacts.

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Trillian tip: Tear off some buddies

Trillian Pro mini-buddy-listI stumbled across a cool feature in Trillian Pro today completely by accident. I was trying to rearrange some contacts when I accidentally dragged one of them outside of my buddy list, which created a second, mini-buddy-list. I'm sure this isn't new to everybody, but it's new to me, and I thought it was cool. Just click and drag any contact, meta-contact, or contact group off of your buddy list and drop it elsewhere on your desktop, and now those contacts will be available in a little collapsible, dockable list of their own. I realize that half the reason for using Trillian is to get rid of multiple buddy lists, but this seems handy for keeping certain contacts available while you've got the rest of the buddy list hidden away. I'm not sure if the free version of Trillian has this feature--can anybody confirm?

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