During a recent lunch meeting, a friend gave me one of his business cards to jot down some notes. While looking at his business card, I noticed how archaic the traditional business card is, and realized that the digital revolution is a huge threat to the paper business card industry.

There are some cool novel ideas like Entrecard, but I want to specifically give 7 reasons why I think paper business cards are becoming extinct.

7 Reasons Why Business Cards Are Becoming Extinct

1. Business cards are easily misplaced.
2. Most business cards lack adequate information about the provider/business.
3. Many people run out of business cards in the time of need.
4. You must constantly update your business cards whenever you change location, e-mail, etc. It also leaves previous receivers with outdated information.
5. Business cards are inaccessible to your clients when they are away from home or the office.
6. It’s challenging to give out copies of someone else’s business card.
7. People are already adopting more effective ways of sharing their business information. For example, Linkedin is “digital business cards on steroids.”

That’s just a few reasons why I believe paper business cards are becoming a thing of the past.

What Do You Think the 21st Century Has in Store for Sharing Your Business Information?

We played around with some CSS, added some HTML or two, and came out with a new look for our Keepm blog.

Next around the corner is the release of our fully featured Drupal Community, planned for next week.

In the meantime, we are working to improve the core features of Keepm as well. Of course, many of you love the simplicity, too.

Our goal is to maintain the simplicity, while adding core features to help you manage your contacts better.

If you have any more suggestions, please let us know!

Thanks, and let us know what you think of the new look!

We’re happy to announce a new feature on Keepm.com!

Now, you can import your contacts from:

• Yahoo!
• Hotmail
• and Gmail (Recently debugged the G-mail Feature)

Import Your Contacts in 6 Simple Steps

1. Log in to Keepm and Click the “Import” Tab
2. Select “Import AddressBook” from the Tabs
3. Select either Gmail, Yahoo!, or Hotmail.
4. Enter Your User Name and Password.
5. Scroll down the bottom of your imported contacts, and select “Import Selected Contacts”
6. That’s it!

We plan on adding more importer features in the future, so please list your old contact manager in the comments and we’ll see what we can do!

*Update: We’ve added the following address books as well:

• AOL
• Orkut
• Linkedin
• RediffMail

Got some friends who live outside of the US?

Now you can select from over 170 countries under the “Home” feature as you add or edit contacts in your Keepm Dashboard.

We are also considering the option of translating Keepm into multiple languages. However, we need more feedback from our users to gauge whether it’s a worthy venture.

If you have any personal opinions on whether Keepm should be translated into multiple languages, please leave them in the comments.

Thanks!

We finally added a “Delete Your Account” Feature to the My Account Section.

If for any reason you no longer like your account, simply delete your account with 1 click.

Of course we hope you change your mind!