Gist is one of the most valuable tools that I use to manage my day to day information, along with a few other systems, Gist provides the backbone support for many of the things I do. Gist helps me keep track of what is important and what is not important and can be deferred to later on when I have some time. As a small company owner, book writer, blogger, and starting a new startup, as well as having a day job, I couldn’t do this without some serious support along the way, Gist provides that support.
Gist has been openly discussed and debated over the last few months during their closed beta which I have been fortunate enough to work with and come to depend on. With their open beta now available for the technology folks out there that also have the same difficulties as me in managing your life and keeping track of everyone you need to keep track of I cannot recommend Gist highly enough. Time to go take a look and play with the toy, you will not be disappointed as it simply does what it is supposed to do, without a lot of overhead.
This comes with my five star approval rating, and is well worth checking out. Go right here, sign up, have some fun with it, and don’t forget to provide feedback. They have taken care of a lot of alpha/beta issues, and it just runs very smoothly right now.
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attempted to solve the problem. Though they have done a great job in
bringing together all the information together, I have a feeling that
it is adding to the information overload rather than help tackling it.
Based on my basic understanding of the app, I think it takes all
contacts from all the social networks and mashes up to offer
information about each of them. I really don’t want something like
that. It loads me up with information about people whom I might follow
on Twitter or Facebook for various reasons but don’t want to be part of
my contact manager. It is a clear case of information overload as far
as I am concerned. What I actually want is more information about
people I care, taken from these social networking sites. [..]
[..] And lastly Andy Fox, Vice President Engineering from Novell showed their integration using the Wave federation protocol – Pulse. Pulse aggregates multi channel communication as well as a list of relevant contacts – it’s effectively a social CRM/communication offering. It brought to mindGist’s offering and, while it helps aggregate lots of data, it does little to ease the burden of the firehose of information. The addition it does bring is the enablement of visibility in real time – but it does raise some question as to the value of asynchronous vs synchronous communications. [..]
[..] And lastly Andy Fox, Vice President Engineering from Novell showed their integration using the Wave federation protocol – Pulse. Pulse aggregates multi channel communication as well as a list of relevant contacts – it’s effectively a social CRM/communication offering. It brought to mindGist’s offering and, while it helps aggregate lots of data, it does little to ease the burden of the firehose of information. The addition it does bring is the enablement of visibility in real time – but it does raise some question as to the value of asynchronous vs synchronous communications. [..]