Today I'd like to point out an easily missed, yet impressive networking / advertising method, the video business card. As to where I look forward to business cards that employ video on a lcd paper card, I think that technology is years away (not decades though!), a technology has been around for some time to have bussiness card shaped "cdroms".
A little thicker than the standard card stock business card, the cdrom business card can have a little video and an autolaunching web site on the card that can play on a computer even without an active internet connection. These discs can also be used to store and play music, but will not work in cd players or cdroms that do not have a "tray", the slide in units that are standard in many cars and a few macintosh desktops wil not be compatible with the discs, but a majority of people's regular tray style cdrom or home cd player units will work fine.
Using the autorun file feature you can have a custom flash site start and run immediately showing great grphics, audio and video. Your info can be bold and bright with more information on the disc itself, and the ability to download more text, uadio or video form the internet.
A digital video business card can be an interactive audio video experience with dynamic database driven information and more, or it can hold basic contact information, music and or other files, essentially a custom cd with whatever you want on it in the size and shape of a standard business card. I look forward to a future where my business card can be beamed from my cell phone to yours in a click, perhaps this technlogy will be more widely implemented and adapted in a couple years, but the way things are with cell phones it may a decade before we see this in broad use; we'll see! Until then consider a custom auto run web site on a business card sized cdrom - it's affordable, it's future and it's now.
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