Screencast of the Week - Find Info About People Easily
Posted on Sunday April 19, 2009 by Betsy Weber

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)
Ah, thanks Betsy!
Posted by Marshall Kirkpatrick | April 20, 2009 1:26 PM
Posted on April 20, 2009 13:26