CardMunch for iPhone Converts Your Business Cards Into Contacts
— By Hand  Next Story  AOL's Messy Transition  In the past, I’ve
written pretty extensively about my disdain for business cards —
they add to clutter, and when you actually need to look up
someone’s contact information, it’s like looking for a needle in
a haystack. Alas, they’re still here, but fortunately plenty of
startups are working to make them better. Today sees the launch
of CardMunch, an iPhone app that lets you take a snapshot of a
business card and have it added to your iPhone contacts. The
application is $2.99 and comes with 10 credits (it costs one
credit per card entered). Beyond that, it costs around 25 cents
per card.  This isn’t a new idea — we recently wrote about the
similar ScanBizCards, and there are plenty of other competitors.
The difference here is that CardMunch is actually having humans
verify every card that’s submitted through their system — you’re
sending each photo you upload to someone on Mechanical Turk, who
convert