All this social stuff.
As the number of social networking sites starts to grow and users start to join more and more, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with friends on different sites and what they are doing.
Some sites have started to pop up which are 'feed aggregators' for social networking sites, much like RSS feed aggregators for blogs, etc (read: feedburner). One of these new sites, now in Beta, is called Socialthing!. TechCrunch had a great article about them this morning. Pretty cool concept, and looks like they've got the technology down. I'm curious to see what their next steps will be and if they can get a good seasoned executive team to try and take them to the next level. It will be interesting to see what VC firms (if any) will want to throw money their way. Friendfeed received $5m, versus their ~$500k, so things will be very interesting from here on out.
Labels: Social Networking, Socialthing, TechCrunch, Technology
Great new plugin
Xobni is Inbox, backwards
Last week I was on a WebEx session with a guy at work when he pulled up his Outlook and I saw a really neat sidebar plugin he was running. He told me to check out Xobni. There's not much to say other than it looks like a really cool and efficient way of managing your inbox content and hyperlinking/smart tagging certain data (e.g. phone numbers) inside emails.
Only one catch for now -- it's 'Beta' and invite-only. I haven't had a chance to play with it first hand, but everything I've read about it and everything I've seen makes it look like a must have application.
Looks like they've raised around $5m from some great incubation and VC firms, and have recently joined the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program, so I would keep an eye out for Xobni coming to your Inbox soon.
Labels: Microsoft, Technology, Xobni
Welcome to the new SamZeb.com...
Hello and welcome to the new site, now accessible at samzeb.com and at sam.zebarjadi.com.
I'll try to keep this blog updated since I did such a horrible job doing so last year. Stay tuned...