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Burn your business cards!
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- IT TOPICS:Mobile & Wireless
It's 2009. We all carry little computers in our pockets. So why do we still exchange personal data like our names, titles, company names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and employers' mailing addresses via tiny sheets of dead tree pulp?
Turns out we don't have to.
A company called DubMeNow, which I mentioned in a column last year entitled, "I want my mobile social address book," lets you do away with business cards forever.
The company plans to announce Monday support for every cell phone sold in the US.
In addition to a universal version, the company also offers "feature rich," smartphone-specific versions for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and even Android-based phones.
Once you exchange contacts on DubMeNow, the contact information is automatically kept current forever. Just share a link with the other party via SMS or e-mail, and all the contact information in your mobile address book is populated automatically. If someone you met gets a new job, new work number and other new data, your phone's contact database is updated.
DubMeNow uses Google Maps to remember the place where you met someone, and the date is retained as well, which can jog your memory years later.
The new version, available next week, also enhances privacy. It lets you be contactable, if you wish, without actually giving contact information using a feature called DUB ID.
Another new feature called Group DUB lets an entire room full of people exchange contact information at once.
And the new DubMeNow synchronizes with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM and Siebel.
You can also tell DubMeNow to share invitations on the Twitter microblogging service.
Again, all this will be announced Monday. The service is free, so give it a try and let me know how you like it.
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