The Visual Lounge lets you find out about TechSmith behind-the-scenes. Watch screencasts and videos from other customers, meet up with your fellow TechSmith users and staff, and get more tips and tricks!

RSS iconSubscribe to RSS feed  [ What Is This ? ]

Screencast of the Week - Find Info About People Easily

Posted on Sunday April 19, 2009 by Betsy Weber

swfoo.png

I'm sitting in the San Francisco Airport waiting to catch the red-eye flight home to Detroit so I thought I'd sneak in a quick blog post. I was out in California for Social Web FooCamp. I met a lot of amazing people who are shaping the future of the web, social networking, the social graph, and new technologies. Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb showed me one of the coolest (and scariest?) Firefox extensions I've seen in awhile called Identify. Basically, you install the extension and then when you're on a social network or media site, with the press of two keystrokes you can pull up profile information for a person on a wide range of sites they participate on (like Twitter, digg, Flickr, etc). And, in some cases, even phone numbers and mailing addresses! This is a good way for you to see if there is more information about yourself out there than you want to share.

Marshall did a great write-up on the extension here and even included a nice screencast made with Jing so you can see the extension in action. I liked Marshall's screencast because it is a great way to show off new tech. It's quick and to the point.

Time for me to catch my flight! Any nominations for next week's Screencast of the Week?

Comments (1)

Marshall Kirkpatrick :

Ah, thanks Betsy!

Quote floater

Post a comment


Can't read image


Type the characters you see in the picture above.

Currently Reading:
“Screencast of the Week - Find Info About People Easily”

This page contains a single entry from The Visual Lounge posted on April 19, 2009 11:37 PM.


Previous entry:
Microphone Round-up!.

Next entry:
Screencast 4 Cash - MindBites Video Contest.


All recent entries can be found on the main page or by looking through the archives.