The conXt Blog

How to organize your contacts with tags

Eric Greenberg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:58:06 +0000

In conXt tags are used to essentially attach useful and personally meaningful labels to your contacts. This then provides a simple way to filter your list of contacts to just show the people tagged with a particular tag. When you filter your contacts by tags, remember that each tag button acts as a toggle. As [...]

Create and Mail a Custom Holiday Card with Piknic and conXt

Eric Greenberg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:12:46 +0000

Cookies and milk, peanut butter and chocolate, strawberries and cream, Picnik and conXt. For those of you who might not be aware of this, Picnik is an online photo editing tool so simple to use that even the most technophobic among us can create attractive images. Couple that with the conXt Custom Card template and [...]

Send Your Holiday Cards Through ConXt!

Eric Greenberg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:48:01 +0000

In keeping with our quest to be a hyper-useful address book, we are happy to announce the first in a wave of web2print offerings: Holiday Cards! You can now send physical photo holiday cards directly from conXt into the mailboxes in front of their homes. We will print, stuff, stamp, and mail your cards for [...]

Are You Being Pumped for Data by Facebook Apps?

Eric Greenberg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:16:05 +0000

How many times has this happened? You decide to log in to a website or enter a comment using your Facebook credentials, and the Facebook pop up appears and shows you something like this: All I really wanted to do was login to The Mystery App with my FB credentials, not give away my first [...]

The Reincarnation of conXt

Eric Greenberg — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:20:12 +0000

Hello Everyone! It’s been quite some time since I last posted, but I am happy to announce the newest incarnation of conXt: A Private Address Book for a Connected World! Since the release of Beta 1 last year, we have essentially completely re-envisioned the conXt experience and user interface. We were able to bring in [...]

Easier contact info sharing coming soon

Eric Greenberg — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:59:09 +0000

After a few months in early beta, it is clear that we had to make some usability improvements in what it takes to get up and running when you ‘conXt’ to someone else in order to exchange contact information. Previously, when you signed up for conXt, you would have to import your contacts, create Groups, [...]

Privacy Settings for Facebook Places

Eric Greenberg — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:13:16 +0000

As many of you probably know Facebook has released a new feature called ‘Places‘. The feature is intended to compete with other ‘check-in’ types of services like foursquare, where you basically announce to the world, via your mobile device, ‘I am at such and such location’. As sites like pleaserobme.com make evident, announcing to the [...]

Working with Groups

Eric Greenberg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:01:01 +0000

This brief instructional video is meant to show how to add, edit, and delete Groups, as well as how to add or remove contacts from a Group. Although I will soon create a video about understanding the idea of Groups, in general, some things to remember while reviewing this video are: You can create as [...]

Some user friendly upgrades

Eric Greenberg — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:19:21 +0000

I know there has been some confusion around the idea of ‘Shared’ and ‘Private’ contact information and we are making some changes to hopefully clear that up. ‘Shared’ information is information that someone shares with you when you are ‘conXted’ to them. However, even if you are conXted to someone you can still have your [...]

The new www site is finally live

Eric Greenberg — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:28:34 +0000

Just a quick note tonight. I finally got the conXt ‘www’ site live – you can find it at www.conxt.com. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Or better yet – register to use conXt and then invite your friends/colleagues/family members, etc to share their contact info with you so that [...]