iBeam is an application that lets you send your contacts(and vCards) from your device to another. It comes with 3 methods to send the contacts too(WiFi, vCard, and optical). It only takes a couple of sends to send and that’s a lot better than having to carry a bunch of business cards around.
To send a card over WiFi, you only have to have both devices open up iBeam. . .to send a vCard it takes your contact and formats it correctly for an email. . .and to send it optically you let it create a barcode and use the other one to take a picture of it.
This is a great way to send contacts, but it requires both parties to have the application. Since this is a paid application the # of downloads is minuscule compared to free applications, and it’s the adoption rate that will make or break the success for it. Think of it as MySpace or Facebook. As an individual website they suck, but when hundreds of millions of people use it(like your friends), it becomes a useful utility.
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