WWD Coffee Break – Stickers, Spam, and Sharing

Don’t Forget the Stickers – The new Dedicated Follower of Fashon blog offers tips for the geek looking to be stylish, rather than corporately clunky, in their choice of laptop. Remember, in building your personal brand, image is important.

A Fresh Weapon in the Spam Wars – Defensio went into public beta with their spam-whacking service for blogs and other social media. They offer a drop-in replacement for Akismet on WordPress, as well as APIs so you can hook it up to other things. Features include adaptive algorithms, RSS feeds, pretty charts, and statistics.

Networks with a Purpose- Co.labr8.com is a new social web site with a focus on creativity and collaboration. Join to solicit community input on your own creative projects, or to contribute ideas to existing projects. There’s a points and redemption system to reward the contributors of the most popular ideas with cold hard cash. Meanwhile, The Point is a site where people can band together to organize fundraisers, boycotts, parties, and other forms of mass social action.

Ready to Fill Out Another Profile? – Lyro is trying to be your online home for business cards and personal branding. Create an account and you can put your biz card online (they make it available to all the major search engines) and then load up your page with brochures and other promotional material. They also have groups and some other social features.

Share Your Outlook – Combining a powerful desktop calendar client with universal web appointment sharing continues to be a tougher problem than one might expect. Calgoo Connect is the latest app to tackle this particular problem space with their Java-based utility that synchronizes Microsoft Outlook with Google Calendars. Try it for 15 days or buy it for $24.95 per year per user.

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