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Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Mar 10, 2017

Organise your community with “swync groups”

It has been a while since my last blogpost and I apologize for that. We have been busy working on the next features for swync and I got a little distracted :)

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Dec 14, 2016

How we will earn our living…

Data Privacy has turned out to be the most controversial topic discussed in meetings or conferences I’ve attended. Data Privacy is something intimate and personal, and as a result, it’s something we want to see protected by law — at least in Europe. A core element of these…

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Aug 7, 2017

Why the GDPR is important for our business

This blogpost wants to talk about why the EU is trying to bring about a uniform data protection regulation and what that means for us all.

One word that has been mentioned in recent years in connection with European economic…

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Dec 12, 2016

Why I need swync.me?

How many people do you know? 300? Perhaps 1,000 if you are a busy person. And how well do you “know” all those people. Is it someone you have only met once or someone you want to keep in contact with?

Wolfgang Gumpelmaier in swync — stay in touch

Dec 14, 2016

Download swync for Android and iOS

On Monday, September 19th, we had our little launch-event in Linz/Austria, where we presented swync to a larger audience for the first time. It was amazing and we’d like to thank everyone who helped us on our way and celebrated with us. On Facebook you find some photos…

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Dec 14, 2016

Why social media is not about contacts

In my last blog post, I discussed the different approaches of “inclusive” and “exclusive” platforms and their implications for telco providers and internet companies. As I started thinking in more detail about this post, I realized that I should expand on the…

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Dec 12, 2016

What is an address book and in which context is it used?

“An address book or a name and address book is a book or a database used for storing entries called contacts. (Wikipedia.org).

The history of the concept of an address book goes back until the earliest…

Wolfgang Gumpelmaier in swync — stay in touch

Dec 14, 2016

swync update: meet the team and save the date!

As you may have noticed — synca.me is now swync. Due to trademark law issues in the US we changed our app-name to swync. That’s why this update took some time. But in the meantime we were working on our product and hey, we have some great news to…

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Dec 14, 2016

International platforms win the game

In my last blog post, I explained the relationship between a contact and its identifiers. The sum of all identifiers defines a contact and indicates which platforms can be used to reach them. In this blog post, I want to share some thoughts about these platforms.

Benedikt Aichinger in swync — stay in touch

Dec 12, 2016

Contacts show us the way we want to stay in touch

Sharing your identifiers with people is something very personal. The choice of which identifiers to share and with whom depends on the type of contact. Data protection laws differ between “open”, “personal” and “sensitive” data, which each…

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An old friend changed his mobile number? Your ex-colleague has a new job and a new email-address? swync automatically updates your contacts and brings more quality to your address book! No duplicates, no outdated contacts anymore — contact management for the new century.

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