Comments on: DubMeNow contact exchange now includes location aware feature

By: Karen M.

Karen M. — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:14:54 +0000

I’ve been using rmBrme for awhile now. http://rmbrme.com/ I think after reading the article above that most of features that Dubmenow has, was already done by rmBrme before. And if you’ve seen the Apple commercial, Bump Technologies has a cool fun app to exchange info as well. http://www.bumptechnologies.com/

By: Karen M.

Karen M. — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:14:00 +0000

By: Joe Beaulaurier

Joe Beaulaurier — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:31:39 +0000

@cletis – I really doubt there’s any reason for worry that dubmenow is merely collecting contact information here. There are much simpler ways and they have a viable business plan so why ruin it? No need for foil hats here methinks.

By: Joe Beaulaurier

Joe Beaulaurier — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:31:00 +0000

By: Joe Beaulaurier

Joe Beaulaurier — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:31:00 +0000

By: cletis

cletis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:22:16 +0000

Rather than utilizing any of the number of existing ways to send somebody my contact info (such as the built-in vCard export to email detailed above by Joe), I should instead download an app which apparently exists solely to collect and store contact information for as many SmartPhone users as can be duped into submitting it? Okay, I’ll get right on that. Would you like my SSN and DL number as well?

By: cletis

cletis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:22:00 +0000

By: cletis

cletis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:22:00 +0000

By: ishsal (Al-Ishsal Ishak)

ishsal (Al-Ishsal Ishak) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:01:15 +0000

RT @BlackBerryCool: DubMeNow contact exchange now includes location aware feature http://bit.ly/1ZheXS http://myloc.me/s6rb

By: ishsal (Al-Ishsal Ishak)

ishsal (Al-Ishsal Ishak) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:01:00 +0000

RT @BlackBerryCool: DubMeNow contact exchange now includes location aware feature http://bit.ly/1ZheXS http://myloc.me/s6rb

By: ishsal (Al-Ishsal Ishak)

ishsal (Al-Ishsal Ishak) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:01:00 +0000

RT @BlackBerryCool: DubMeNow contact exchange now includes location aware feature http://bit.ly/1ZheXS http://myloc.me/s6rb

By: BlackBerryCool (BlackBerry Cool)

BlackBerryCool (BlackBerry Cool) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:15:24 +0000

DubMeNow contact exchange now includes location aware feature http://bit.ly/1ZheXS

By: BlackBerryCool (BlackBerry Coo

BlackBerryCool (BlackBerry Coo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:15:00 +0000

DubMeNow contact exchange now includes location aware feature http://bit.ly/1ZheXS

By: Joe Beaulaurier

Joe Beaulaurier — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:55:11 +0000

I tried dubmenow but was disappointed to see that instead of simply receiving easily importable contact info, the recipient gets an email with a nicely laid out representation of a business card containing your data. They are then required to set up a dubmenow account or be stuck with having to cut-n-paste your information into whatever address book they’re using. That creates too much friction in the process.

I have been enabling people to bypass cut-n-paste and retyping by using builtin features on my Blackberry Storm. I simply locate my own address book entry in Contacts and select “Send as attachment.” This enables me to email my information as a vCard file (universally importable into address books) to one or more people. I use it all the time. I’m able to include not only my basic contact info but by using the user definable fields I also include my twitter, flickr, YouTube, PeoplePond and TripIt links as well. I also use the Note field to include a little biography about me. It is lacking my mugshot though.

And in return, when someone texts or emails their vCard to me, I simply import it into my Blackberry Contacts. I could also import it into SalesForce, GMail contacts, etc.

I would like to send my vCard as a text msg (MMS) but MMS enabled phones typically also receive email. Also I would assume that people tend to prefer importing and managing their contacts on their desktop and sync with their phone later so this is somewhat of a moot point.

By: Joe Beaulaurier

Joe Beaulaurier — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:55:00 +0000

And in return, when someone texts or emails their vCard to me, I simply import it into my Blackberry Contacts. I could also import it into SalesForce, GMail contacts, etc.

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:03:53 +0000

Just downloaded on blackberry. Looks cool and can’t wait for Dub to become a standard so I can burn my business cards for ever

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:03:00 +0000

Just downloaded on blackberry. Looks cool and can’t wait for Dub to become a standard so I can burn my business cards for ever

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:03:00 +0000

Just downloaded on blackberry. Looks cool and can’t wait for Dub to become a standard so I can burn my business cards for ever

By: Chris Hopkinson

Chris Hopkinson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:49:24 +0000

Thanks for the review! We’re excited to be the first to offer BlackBerry and iPhone users ability to exchange contact info with the push of a button.

Stay tuned for more to come!

Cheers,

Chris Hopkinson
Dub
http://www.dubmenow.com
chris@dubmenow.com