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I feel like the mall, wishing people happy holidays before the middle of the month, haha. Heading to India later this week, so I'll be taking a break from blogging until after the holidays. I have 42 blog post ideas queued up in my list, so lots of writing on tap for 2008. Best wishes to everyone for a fun and safe rest of the year.
I wrote about how people have different levels of contacts for use in different contexts previously on this blog. We've been working on a lot of interesting projects at ClearContext around these segmented contact networks - the intersection of contact and context information I mentioned in my post on "Inbox 2.0." We're currently developing some pretty sophisticated features around this that are deeply integrated within people's workflow in Outlook and the context of their actions within the email client. However, while building out those features, we realized that the basic step of identifying groups of contacts from within sets of email folders and prioritizing them in order of their relevance to conversations in those folders is pretty useful for things like creating email distribution lists and uploading subsets of your entire contact list to social networking sites. So we decided to release one of the building blocks of that functionality as a beta feature in our IMS product. Om writes about it on Web Worker Daily and we've put up a simple ClearContext Contact Exporter for Outlook webpage. Go check it out! I'm very interested in hearing how people use this and what sort of ways you see this type of functionality being built out.
A brief break from email and startup posts for a grammar nit post.
It's quite irritating to me to see smart people constantly misusing "it's" in place of "its" like Fred Wilson did when he wrote "it's users can and will leave" regarding Facebook. This may well be a total anomaly for Fred; I'm just picking on him because he happened to be the third or fourth sharp blogger I've noticed do this in the last few days.
I'm a big fan of informality in blog posts and write tons of run-on and otherwise crappy sentences in my blog posts. But I still consider it's/its, they're/their/there, and other sloppy grammar mistakes to be below the bar I consider acceptable even in blog posts or emails.
OK, that's all.
