Comments on: Zentact Wants to Turn You Into A Super-Connector (Invites)

By: ED ROACH

ED ROACH — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:13:34 +0000

I’m doing exactly this my clients and contacts now (all be it manually). I outline it in an article I wrote for Small Business Branding Blog: http://www.smal...#comment-247774

I’ll be keeping an eye on this service. It was brought to my attention by one of my readers.

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By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:54:25 +0000

Just getting started with the service…

For what I’ve been reading in the comments section, one of the main complains is the fact that TAGS have to be entered manually for each contact.

What if:

1. there was an option to select multiple contacts and assign some “basic” tags to them all at once? that would cut a bit of work, even though you would want to go back in at a later time and edit/add more specific tags

2. The system sends an invitation/contact email to “selected” contacts so they can go into your account list and edit their own tags?

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By: Kunal Malhotra

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:06:50 +0000

IMHO, the execution is not quite as straightforward…. don’t know what everyone else thinks.

Also, their firefox extension created havoc on my computer… had to disable it

By: Bryan R. Adams

Bryan R. Adams — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:00:48 +0000

I will definitely try this. I am always looking for ways to optimize my contact lists. And I trust that these guys will find ways to eliminate the limitations in the very near future.

By: Alison B. Lowndes

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:17:33 +0000

Have signed up & was great to read in Welcome email “It’s important to note that tagging all your contacts right now is not necessary. We’ll provide integrated methods that will make it easy to tag those in your network over time. Plus, we’ll automatically search for names upon import, adding value immediately.”

Phew .. look forward to using you to connect.

By: Curtis Gray

Curtis Gray — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:56:01 +0000

This should work for Twitter followers.

By monitoring my followers and reporting what sites they are tweeting I could get an idea of what my followers and their followers are interested in, then tweet about it. It would make me more useful to them.

By: Matt Lawson

Matt Lawson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:26:05 +0000

This could be very useful. In particular I would like to use it to connect with people doing social work for poor people. Im working on a series of projects to build hospitals and schools for the poorest of the poor.

So what is the “invite” code?

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By: Erik Unger

Erik Unger — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:59:57 +0000

What about the APML standard from DataPortability.org?

http://www.apml.org/

There are some connecting bells ringing for me…

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:30:07 +0000

Great innovation, I can’t wait to use this one.
http://www.youtechno.info

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:08:38 +0000

Like the potential in this one, but might want to wait out the sign-up until some more early beta kinks are worked out. Having issues with email validation and Firefox plugin not working (see getsatisfaction for details).

By: Jauder Ho

Jauder Ho — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:26:54 +0000

One would think it’s better and more accurate to get someone to self tag.

Or go down the route of contextual tag extraction. Having to manually tag in this case would be painful.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:38:01 +0000

No, I think refugees is better

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:37:23 +0000

I know, but what would be helpful is a list of suggested tags based on information from my address book or, better yet, my contacts linkedIn/Facebook profiles. I agree that auto-filling a bunch of tags is probably overkill, but auto-suggesting is different.

By: Eric Marcoullier

Eric Marcoullier — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:52:06 +0000

Ashot — the Zentact guys aren’t looking to become another social network. In fact, the goal is that after you sign up, you can get all the benefits without ever visiting the site again (shades of MyBlogLog for those who are familiar with the founding philosophy). Over time I think you’ll see more features that prove that idea out.

The challenge with all the “Connect”-style OpenID services right now is that they don’t allow for storage of data. They work great for identity management (I want to log into a Service B with my Service A credentials) but they don’t work at all services that need persistent use of a social graph, or your interests, or whatever. Hopefully, this will change with widespread adoption of OAuth, but we’ll see.

For now, expect to see several more integrations like what the guys have done with Gmail and Yahoo Mail: seamless integrations that enable you to tag your contacts when they are front and center rather than force you to come back to yet another place to manage your address book.

And along the way, maybe Gnip can help some of the issues required to push data back and forth between Zentact and its partners

By: tracey rogers

tracey rogers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:19:44 +0000

I justed you the import functionality and it worked fine – 400 contacts and a match based on name the first day.

By: Tracey Rogers

Tracey Rogers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:15:00 +0000

http://howardlindzon.com/

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By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:32:14 +0000

looks interesting. btw – who is Howard Lindzom

By: Ashot Iskandarian

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:27:22 +0000

i like the idea… but why are you trying to become another social network? I’m looking at a blue “Connect” button to my right which can solve a lot of initial issues and help jumpstart your “network.”

I’m sure as connect develops we’ll have access to trends from the user. this should allow you to focus on your core competencies too rather than spend money on marketing.

good lucks guys

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:24:41 +0000

Congrats to the team on moving idea to reality. Trust me everyone, the feature set you see now will be a fraction of the capabilities within 6-12 months. I’m not a company insider, I just know the individuals and how they work.

I’m surprised no one mentioned the funny little story behind this service, so I’ll just say Scott Rafer and leave it at that

Also is “refugees” really the right term to describe their MyBlogLog history. MyBlogLog was and still is a big success in start-up world. How about ‘alumni’ instead?

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:46:28 +0000

I like this, and am always looking for better ways to keep my contacts fresh. In addition to the above, I’d love better tabindexing (e.g., I could tab from the address field into the zentact field). And down the road, a way for this to constantly be scanning my google reader.