Archive | September, 2007

The World’s Biggest Rolodex

By on September 11, 2007 in General Interest

My wife went to a conference recently and got a back issue of the June 2006 Inc. magazine. Maybe you guys didn’t know it but Jigsaw is an online network that allows business people to buy, sell and swap contact information.

The founder is Jim Fowler who started the company in 2004. He was tired of overpriced business databases loaded with out of date contact info so he basically created his own system. Now he’s helping those of you who need it to get past the web of secretarial and executive assistant gatekeepers for $25.00 a month.

The fee gets you a set of starter leads and then extra contact leads every time you contribute good information to the database. It’s a good reciprocating system from the looks of it. It seems to have a wiki kind of feel to it just from reading about it as you can also correct errors and get more leads for doing that as well.

Check out the rest of the article from the issue and see if there’s some actionist value there for you.

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Check Out the Ning and Nexo Do It Yourself Social Networks

By on September 4, 2007 in Blogging

PC World’s June issue has a geat review on two build your own social network offerings. If you aspire to have your own site at no cost for your personally defined group one of these can probably get you there. Sounds like true actionist software.

Both of them have a variety of design templates and according to the article you should be able to have something operable and running in a half hour. Ning was cofounded by Netscape pioneer Marc Andreesen. If you know Cascading Style Sheets you’ll probably like working with this program.

The reviewer said Nexo didn’t allow as much flexibility but the one advantage it had over Ning – for now- is that it didn’t have adds built into it. CEO Caraig Jorasch says that will probably change in the last quarter of the year though. It also offers more pre-programmed modules than Ning.

The main thing though is to check out both and compare for yourself. You might build the next MySpace or Facebook. Or if smaller scaled visions of granduer will suffice just be sure to make your thing what you need it to be, the way you need it.

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