Comments on: IBM’s “PENSIEVE” Project to Digitize Business Cards

By: harlowjoness

harlowjoness — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:44:36 +0000

Sounds impractical and not particularly innovative. But the Pensieve idea – that’s from Harry Potter!

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By: its_pi

its_pi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:07 +0000

This is so stupid.. I mean with RFID business cards which can feed in data directly to your cellphone, this idea sounds prehistoric!

By: mohan

mohan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:37:29 +0000

Hey IBM ppl gone mad or what….WTF,does this project make any sense

By: dan

dan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:33:38 +0000

I need another coffee. on first read I thought it was called peni*envy

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:33:55 +0000

Hi,
Three responses to that.
a) Some devices are not yet ready for a QR Code reader. If the camera lens is too bad and the mobile internet capabilities are severly limited, it doesn’t make sense to make a reader. The good thing, this is less and less the case, but some handset companies would need a push to open up their architecture so that a good QR Code Reader can be installed.

b) More readers will come in the future.

c) But as QR Codes are an universal format, you can read them with several QR Code Readers: there are more than 7 readers on the market as long as we talk about URL’s. So if you do not find your phone on the Kaywa Reader page, you’ll sure to find your device elsewhere.
That’s the great thing about an official and worldwide ISO-Standard. No company alone can create such a huge market, but every company benefits from the others around.

By: Cadillac

Cadillac — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:31:48 +0000

did any else find this odd: “later, when they plug those phones into their computers”.

FAIL right there. i’ve never synched my blackberry or other phone to my computer. Maybe if it works via bluetooth they will have something.

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By: jumpin jehosephat

jumpin jehosephat — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:37:39 +0000

NeatReceipts also does this.

By: Gabe Zichermann

Gabe Zichermann — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:05:27 +0000

Throwing a quick shoutout there as well – we’ve also built a similar service using SMS, called rmbrME: http://www.rmbrME.com which is significantly more socially enabled than a biz card photo/scanning approach. As @Tal mentioned above, there are others!

We built it mostly because I find the post-processing of bizcards super annoying – and not a whole lot of fun. It seems to me that what you really want to do is skip the physical card entirely (if possible) and go right to the socially networked card.

-G

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Drop the Card » Blog Archive » Room for everyone — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:52:00 +0000

[...] PENSIEVE is a recent development by IBM to help you scan and track physical business cards – here the priority is to save your contacts business card rather than share your own. [...]

By: EPORIA eCommerce Solutions

EPORIA eCommerce Solutions — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:15:54 +0000

Have to agree, the video did seem like something from the early 90s (if not Orwellian). However, it made its point clear and it sounds like a useful tool.

By: Tal

Tal — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:06:10 +0000

Cool idea – what about making sure your business card also gets saved – my problem is that I want to make sure people don’t lose my business card, click on my sites, and connect on my networks

(friends and I built myDropcard.com for that, but there’s several solutions out there, includin gLinxCard.com)

By: Tucson

Tucson — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:42:00 +0000

Seems like their "ideation" session wasn't very productive. That's relatively easy to do and it's been done before. Evernote offers a similar service and with a lot of extra features like handwriting recognition and tagging.

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By: A Strange Web

A Strange Web — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:16:55 +0000

1. Collect business card
2. Try to remember where you put business card
3. Send LinkedIn invite
4. Toss business card in the trash

Now if only LinkedIn would come up with a decent sync to Exchange I’d be a happy guy.

By: duf

duf — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:58:17 +0000

Kaywa doesnt work on all phones i.e most motorolas, samsungs, sagems how is that ever going to be a solution when you exclude so many people?

By: duf

duf — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:55:41 +0000

its called bluetooth

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:35:27 +0000

Indeed, like mentioned, QR Codes already do this – in a very secure way. You can either encode information in an offline code (no need of a server) or you can store all the information on a server and link to it via QR Code.

We do this already (vcard data is protected)
http://qrcode.k...ywa.com%2Froger

By: Jon Moss

Jon Moss — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:01:45 +0000

I’m not sure how JKRowling will like this name!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:52:13 +0000

I think business cards will continue to stick around, so what is the easiest way to deal with them? What about the inclusion of a QR code on the card itself, like what we now see with postage. All the information could be scanned, by a cell phone ideally, and made available in the contact app of your choice.

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:56:49 +0000

Was it called CardScan?

By: Brian G

Brian G — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:25:36 +0000

I luv how the Japanese present business cards!!

By: Brian G

Brian G — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:21:05 +0000

Some cell phones do have this feature

By: Trench Reynolds

Trench Reynolds — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:51:33 +0000

What’s a penis sieve?