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CardMunch founder returns with HiHello, a new app aiming to replace business cards

A new app called HiHello is taking aim at business cards. While plenty of apps in the past have tried to kill the business card, they never achieved critical mass. Mainly, this is because most required that both parties – the business card holder and recipient – have their app installed. HiHello is different. Instead of forcing everyone to download its app, it simply generates a QR code that can…

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LinkedIn Part 1: A peek into the roots, foundations and evolution

This is the first part of a series of posts about LinkedIn, which I have initiated here. The purpose of this series is to bring forth an understanding and perspective towards LinkedIn and create a base to engender opinion that will benefit all.

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LinkedIn, the world’s largest online professional network, has redefined…

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If you’re a user of LinkedIn’s popular CardMunch business card scanning app, you’ve hopefully caught wind that as of today CardMunch is toast. I repeat, today is the final day that you’ll be able to access the data from business cards you’ve scanned using CardMunch. So before you start looking for a CardMunch replacement, be sure to transfer your data to Evernote (which you’ll be able to access free for 2 years) or just download it for safekeeping.

  Now then, because business cards are still a thing you’ll need a replacement for CardMunch. If you’re already down with Evernote, then their Hello 2.0 app has got you covered. If not, there alternate options. CamCard is cheap, accurate, and available for virtually every mobile OS there is. But it doesn’t sync with LinkedIn. The FullContact app is free and will sync your scanned info with virtually any application you like. But it’s $10/month if you want to scan more than 10 cards.

  Now if LinkedIn would just buy Evernote…

LinkedIn To Retire CardMunch App – Announce Evernote Partnership

LinkedIn has emailed all of their users of their CardMunch app that it will be retired later this summer and at the same time have announced a two years partnership with Evernote for users to store their scanned business card data.  The partnership means that CardMunch users will have access to what is normally a premium feature on the Evernote service.

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