Synchronous communications are the latest battleground in the war over unified communications. Last week, there was a flurry of announcements on IM, chat, and group messaging. But no matter how clever… Read more »
Amidst talk of a $50 billion Facebook valuation, Liz Gannes at AllThingsD sketches out what she thinks will be a big social media theme for 2011 – multiple identities. I think… Read more »
Facebook Messages isn’t about replacing email. What the social network is really trying to establish with its recently unveiled unified communications hub is presence management, and this new "modern messaging system"… Read more »
Facebook Messages isn’t about replacing email. What the social network is really trying to establish with its recently unveiled unified communications hub is presence management, and this new "modern messaging system"… Read more »
Last week, Google changed the way it allows third-party services to pull the info from your address book automatically, in what was a clear shot at Facebook’s closed approach to such… Read more »
Google has made a change to its terms of service that demands “data reciprocity” from users of its API for contact info. The move is aimed at Facebook, which enables its… Read more »
The idea behind Bump is simple: When you meet up with someone, instead of sharing printed business cards, you can just “bump” phones together, and your contact information will be traded… Read more »
The way people talk, we’d be forgiven for thinking that social networking is one big popularity contest. Get as many contacts as possible, regardless of whether we’ve ever met, or heard… Read more »
Maybe you’ve achieved inbox zero — that doesn’t mean you’ve actually sent emails to everyone you really need to. Etacts’ goal is to get you back in touch with everyone you… Read more »
Mozilla has released an update to its super useful unified contact management Firefox add-on, Contacts. The new version includes quite a few nice improvements, principal among them being added support for… Read more »