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[link] 2008-03-07T21:03:41 Business card with tear-off tabs: Somewhere that I can't find now (maybe in Wired magazine?), there was a plan for a business card with a ton of contact and personal information on it. The card was normal size, so the information had to be compressed. Maybe it was encoded in little 2D barcodes, or maybe it was just written in micro writing that you magnify to read. The interesting part of this card was that the bottom edge of it was shaped into several tabs, and the personal information was completely in the tabs. The tabs were in order of "personalness", like work phone -> home phone -> address -> birthdate -> sexual preference. Maybe they were clustered in bigger groups than that, like work info, home info, personal info. At the moment you're thinking of giving someone a card, then, you could tear off and keep as many of the tabs as you wanted. To the guy I talked business with on a plane, I could hand a card with just my business info. To the family friend who's come to visit, I could hand most of the card. To the stranger in the nightclub who I want to call me again, I might tear off only the business and address tabs. It's possible these cards were never produced, and only drawn up as a concept. Anyway, if you find a link to a picture or something, please let me know. Every now and then I want to hold up that design as an example of a way to control privacy in social networking.
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