Archive for the tag 'social network'

Feb 17 2009

Pimp your addressbook with Avatargrabber

Published by Stef under business

Who said that syncing is boring? Alfredo Morresi developed the ultimate time-wasting-syncing-social-tool to pimp your addressbook. Did you know that your phone and desktop addressbook can associate an icon to any of your entries? But, honestly, who has ever wanted to spend time associating a name with a picture? I didn’t, until Avatagrabber was released, [...]

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Mar 05 2008

The future of Social Networks

Published by Stef under eng

I really liked watching this presentation, I think that Charlene has good points. My social graph is not flat and it’s more extended than any Google or Facebook knows. Which leads to my concerns: how much do I want to disclose to strangers? how do I make sure that I am the owner of [...]

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Mar 03 2008

Mobile micro-blogging with Funambol at Girl Geek Dinner

Published by Stef under eng, funambol

I made an experiment last Friday at the Italian Girl Geek Dinner: I grabbed the latest JAM email client that supports sending photos and I used it to report from there using the new service Twitxr.’  Twitxr is like Twitter allowing short text messages but adding one image and a simple form of geotagging.’  I [...]

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Nov 23 2007

Facebook: with great power comes great responsibility

Published by Stef under community, eng

I have been playing with Facebook lately to check its potential. Everything started when William Ward invited me there in a moment when I was vulnerable (it was before I started the MBA: a few weeks later and I would have gently declined the invitation). In the last weeks I enlarged my network, [...]

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