Posted on: March 6, 2008 in Miscellany
URLs are people too
Hot on the heals of my recent post talking about how the URL will be the next MP3, we had an interesting discussion at Rilli about what information we should put on our new business cards. In the end, we made a somewhat bold move and left off email and other contact details in favor of a simple URL. Why? Well, because we don’t really want to get more email. In many ways, email is where ideas go to die, as my friend Boris Mann famously says. A URL (marked up with microformat goodness) will point people to additional ways to get more information themselves, or to contact us through alternate means. It feels a little like Apple leaving off the CD player on their original iMacs, but I think it’s a neat idea. Email is sort of broken, and this seems like it will work well…
You can check my new card here or the entire teams