For all of SXSW’s cutting edge digital technology, the primary connection tool is still a paper product: the business card. Post-conference, participants may spend spend hours imputing contact info and responding via email. As a solution, two business card apps, Blinx and Hashable, will help network-hungry entrepreneurs ditch the antiquated model of exchanging tiny rectangular slices of printed paper. For those who have returned from the conference, Cardmunch will help digitally archive them accurately, based on pictures of card sent to a human transcriber.
Blinx facilitates contact information sharing through SMS messages that automatically download into a smartphone’s contact database. Users text a pre-determined five-digit phone number with a short code, such as “greg," and are sent a customized list of business card information (email, title, cell, etc.).
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Author: Gregory Ferenstein
