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But what does it do? I get that it lets me create and share a profile, but then what? How do people view/save it on their phones — Do you just send a text messa

by Zev 18y ago

But what does it do? I get that it lets me create and share a profile, but then what? How do people view/save it on their phones — Do you just send a text message with a blob of information to pick through? What to they do with my profile beyond receiving it? Why do they need to create their own profile?

patio11 18y ago
"Business cards, minus the paper." would probably make that a lot easier to understand, and I think it accurately answers the questions: 1) When meeting a person, rather than giving them your business card you say "Text 12345, which is my number, to this address" and then your business card shows up on their phone automatically. 2) They use your profile information however they would normally use contact and professional information. Its just a business card, after all. Go nuts. 3) You don't need to have a business card to get a business card, but it is a good idea anyhow.
- Zev 18y ago
  A name + position + email + company name + phone number can easily add up to > 160 characters, which is the max a text can have. Having information split up across various texts isn't too useful; makes it annoyingly irritating to read a phone number, for example. And with this method, the person receiving the contact info either has to: A. Have a good memory in order to remember everything to reenter. This is irritating at best and very difficult at worst. Lets say there's more then one phone number to enter? Or the person has a slightly unusual name. Or any number of factors. B. Have a few minutes to spend flipping back and forth between the message and the contact. This is time consuming and much slower then just trading business cards. //edit: Perhaps my original question would have been better phrased as "But what does it do better then what is currently done?"?

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But what does it do? I get that it lets me create and share a profile, but then what? How do people view/save it on their phones — Do you just send a text messa

by Zev 18y ago

patio11 18y ago
"Business cards, minus the paper." would probably make that a lot easier to understand, and I think it accurately answers the questions: 1) When meeting a person, rather than giving them your business card you say "Text 12345, which is my number, to this address" and then your business card shows up on their phone automatically. 2) They use your profile information however they would normally use contact and professional information. Its just a business card, after all. Go nuts. 3) You don't need to have a business card to get a business card, but it is a good idea anyhow.
- Zev 18y ago
  A name + position + email + company name + phone number can easily add up to > 160 characters, which is the max a text can have. Having information split up across various texts isn't too useful; makes it annoyingly irritating to read a phone number, for example. And with this method, the person receiving the contact info either has to: A. Have a good memory in order to remember everything to reenter. This is irritating at best and very difficult at worst. Lets say there's more then one phone number to enter? Or the person has a slightly unusual name. Or any number of factors. B. Have a few minutes to spend flipping back and forth between the message and the contact. This is time consuming and much slower then just trading business cards. //edit: Perhaps my original question would have been better phrased as "But what does it do better then what is currently done?"?