Porcupine X

The last 6 months I have been using different CRM systems on a daily basis and I must admit that I have a hard time seeing the benefit of using such a system if you are not a old school sales guy or want a complicated address book.

My believes in the world of sales:

1. I believe that networking is the key.
2. I do not think it is about selling but having the right product that people want to buy.
3. I think it is about building a great/good quality company brand.
4. I do not believe in bad old school sales tactics like cold calling etc.
5. Surprise (in a good way) the buyer when reality kicks in.
6. No bullshit.

Maybe the 6 bullet points can be summarized as TRUST!

Although the term Social Network Relationship Mangement (SNRM) do not have a clear definition it is definitely what I want

• I want to use LinkedIn, Plaxo, ecademy, facebook, twitter, etc to follow what is happening in my network.
• Having a large network I want to prioritize whom I want to follow, ie. I want to follow friends, current and old colleagues more closely than a guy I shared an e-mail with back in 2002.
• I don’t want to spend time updating people and company address records.

Taking the ‘everything has already been invented’ approach I did a quick google search and found almost nothing except for dex by Mercury Rising but I am not sure that the product fulfills my “ Social” requirement - being social by using the social LinkedIn, Plaxo, facebook, twitter, … I signed up for trial access of their software - now I only have to wait.

Should I start building a prototype? or can someone direct me to Social Network Relationship Management software?

Ubiquity is a great help in the web-app-age - maybe still to geeky. Take a look:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Today I released the WIremote program as Open Source under a MIT Licence.

Since I now am a dedicated Mac OS user and the WIremote app. only runs on Microsoft Windows with Windows Media Player installed I saw no reason for not making it possible for others to do further work on the project.

I removed the key registration check code from the source code (I hope it stills compiles). Since I have no Microsoft Windows with development tools I hope someone will make a new installer with the current source code.

The project can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/wiremote

Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Pretty great on my Mac Now I got real desktop web applications!

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