Sending your business cards to the cloud

Business cards are a handy little item that have been a round for a very long time. They have been the basis of things like the Rolodex or over stuffed wallets. The problem is that at some point you need the contact information that is on one of those hundreds of business cards you have collected but be damned if you can find it – until of course you no longer need it.

Dealing with all these business cards was the driving impetuous behind Allen Stern’s site called CloudContacts but until today it usually meant mailing in all those cards to CloudContacts and have them added manually into your account with the service. Well as usual technology has caught up and you can now add those cards as you get them to your CloudContacts account with a simple snap of your mobile phone camera.

Once you have taken the snapshot you email the image to your private CloudContacts mailbox and the little gremlins working behind the scenes quickly convert that information into its electronic form. Now all your contact information is available from anywhere in the world. There’s no application to download and install either – it’s all a matter of snap a shot of the card and email it away. Down and dirty simple which is always a sign of a great idea. Not to mention the fact that all that contact information is easily imported into all the standard email clients, and apparently many of the social media services out there.

For more information about the new service from CloudContacts as well and an ordering form just head over to this page and get yourself started. As well here is a quick video put together by Allen to help explain how it all works a littler better