DISQUS

VentureBeat: Yes.tel wants to help bury the business card

  • Jack · 5 months ago
    The printed business card still has a place. It's so easy to hand someone a card even if it just has your email and web addy on it.
  • Anthony Ha · 5 months ago
    Handing is the easy part. Storing and organizing is the hard part, at least for me ... which is why I prefer to send someone an email with all my contact info in the signature, rather than hand over a card.
  • Micha Benoliel · 5 months ago
    when you subscribe to Yes.tel you also get for free:
    - a local phone number
    - an email
    - a unified voicemail
    - 100 MOO cards with your profile

    Use Voucher VIP69007 and get USD 10.00 discount.
  • K C · 5 months ago
    This doesn't thrill me. The beauty of physical business cards is that they are 100% "opt in". That is, for every one person who has my business card there are at least 2 I wish specifically didn't. The higher up you get in the corporate ranks, the more sensitive direct dial phone numbers and emails become. Thus the peons are all likely to put their info on a .tel page but no one you actually want to have in your Rolodex will.
  • Anthony Ha · 5 months ago
    Hmm, there's some truth to that, though I often find that due to social pressure, etc. I have less control over who I can give my business to than I'd expect. Of course, I tend to broadcast my contact info pretty widely online.
  • yechiam · 5 months ago
    As an addition to the classic paper made-cheap to be manufactured-light to be carried around business cards - it's all right. But remember that to hand out those cards you don't need a screen, nor a mouse or a keyboard and so on. It's so simple and friendly - why bother digitalizing it?
    Yechiam - dcp-print.com
  • markkolb · 5 months ago
    You can create and print .tel related business cards and images via www.bizcards.tel
  • Henri Asseily · 5 months ago
    .tel domains are significantly better than physical business cards in the privacy field: you can specifically decide who sees which piece of information in your .tel domain.
    Some info you'll keep public, some you'll give to your family, some other you'll give to co-workers.