Artificial ignorance

[Update 2/21/2010: TwtMyCard has been deadpooled :( Both Kevin and I love the concept and the promise of what TwtMyCard can deliver, but the cost of hosting the app deters our from keeping the project alive. We still love you.]

At SXSW this year, I noticed a few trends –

• everyone was exchanging business cards with everyone else,
• by hour 2 of being at the event on any given day, people would run out of business cards,
• by the end of each day, I’d have my pockets full of other people’s business cards, and,
• almost everyone I met was on twitter.

I make a conscious effort to convert physical business cards to contacts on Outlook. I really really do. But when you have over 150 business cards that you’ve collected over a week, you are limited in terms of what you can do with those cards. Continue reading