never heard of rapportive? well, they’ve heard of you, and they’re sharing that info with all your gmail contacts. a “social crm” plugin for gmail provides a 360 view of people with whom you correspond. but is the full monty treatment appropriate for all your contacts? and what are people seeing about [read more...]
some more good news for privacy-loving facebook users. facebook announced new privacy controls for content shared through applications. [read more...]
zemanta, a top-notch plugin for my wordpress blog, also offers a version for email clients. my posterous blogs are feeling the zemantic [read more...]
most of the criticism of google’s new service has focused on the service’s auto-follow feature. I’m not all that worried about who google thinks I should be following and/or follows on my behalf. I’m more concerned about the other side of the coin – the absence of good controls over who follows [read more...]
there’s some good advice out there on how to use social media tools, and there’s some that leave you shaking your head. herein some corrective surgery on a linkedin tip I read [read more...]
twitter is not inherently credible, but it enables interaction that leads to credibility. a conversation does not confer good faith by its existence. it is the first step toward a relationship. linkedin, on the other hand, presumes relationships between connections. the linkedin connection does (or should) confer good faith from the moment the invitation is [read more...]
since last fall, linkedin has introduced several changes to how users see and work with the site. I go through the changes and explain why they [read more...]
the buzz keeps getting louder. web 2.0 is not only making the world a smaller place – it is making it easier to find out about and interact with people and businesses in your own backyard. here’s some of the smart phone applications that are making it [read more...]
google saves the day with places directory, a google labs app that uses geo location and user recommendations to create a great user experience. and in this case, [read more...]
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