Skanz Are Wearable Business Cards/Social Network

The New York Consumer Electronic Week conference will outfit all attendees with a QR-code wristband that activities a sophisticated business card-like app called Skanz. In addition to basic info, Skanz is a mini-social network that facilitates offline interacting after the conference--in other words, no more trying to cram even more URLs and social media IDs onto increasingly tinier slivers of what was once called a business card (for more business-card ditching strategies, see our post [3] from SXSW).

"Seesmic Dumps BlackBerry: Start Of A Stampede?" [4]

Popular Twitter client Seesmic [5] is officially ending support for the BlackBerry OS in June, pouring salt on fresh wounds [6] after the beleaguered tech firm drastically cut earnings guidance and began to hand out layoff notices [7]. BlackBerry has struggled to compete in the Android vs. iOS smartphone wars, and losing developers could make the company's devices even more obsolete.

Easy Social Network Campaigns For Local Businesses [8]

The one-time real-estate search engine Roost has re-purposed its original investment toward a new streamlined social-media campaign platform for the novice local business owner. "These small business don’t have time, they don’t know what to post, and they don’t have a big network," said CEO Alex Chang. Roost is free for now, but it expects to add premium features as more businesses roll in.

Sources: Gigaom, Techcrunch

[Image: Courtesy of Skanz]