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admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:41:39 +0000

Sync Your Contacts With Soocial

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:45:08 +0000

I came across this site while doing research for a client. My client has a list of 2,600 contacts spread out across 4 different locations. I obviously had to try it out before recommending it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how nicely it worked.

Basically what it comes down to is that email clients often have difficulties syncing locally stored contacts to web-based mail services that don’t use Exchange Server (in which case, sometimes contacts get over-written anyway). Soocial solves this issue by storing your contacts in one centralized location. Not only can you sync your contacts between your email and web clients, but you can also sync your contacts with your mobile device. This means that if you have to change phones or services, you won’t loose your contacts.

The biggest benefit that I saw is with my iPhone. iPhone now has Exchange support, but I am weary of activating it for fear that my contacts will be lost. Now that I have my contacts backed-up externally, I can do all that I want with my phone without loosing my precious data.

Soocial also has a really nice contact management interface that allows you to merge your contacts from your different sources, and streamline your address book (AKA no duplicate contacts to worry about).

Keep in mind, I’m not affiliated with Soocial. I just really appreciate the service, and think that my friends should know about it.

Google Teams With Twitter to Develop Social Search

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:19:37 +0000

Look at that! I did my presentation just a little too early. It turns out that yesterday Google struck a deal (monetary) with Twitter to include a real-time search of social networks. Read more about the deal on Tech Crunch. This seems like a promising technology for getting up-to-second results on current trending topics, as it takes longer to write an article than a tweet.

I promise to have more links that I have uncovered during my research, but I just saw this pop up today. I was a little angry because it would have been great to include in the advantage that Google has over Facebook.

Google Scholar and Alerts

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:22:41 +0000

Here are my screen shots for looking for info for my presentation.

I had to adjust it because the advanced search wouldn’t allow the “~”.

Got it all set up in my alerts.

A Case For Twitter

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:44:00 +0000

I came across this awesome interview with Jeffry Zeldman (okay, I found it on twitter), but he makes a great case for twitter helping web designers to write more effective content. It’s a great read, so I thought I would share it.

Google Speaks on Their Work on HTML 5

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:20:04 +0000

Just thought that I would share this. HTML is a new web standard, which specification is being drawn up for right now. I’m really excited about a lot of the new features.