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Whether you’re tossing them in the trash, using them to pick poppy seeds from between your teeth, or collecting them in a desk drawer somewhere, odds are you have come across your fair share of business cards. In today’s Digital Age, these 19th century relics have managed to hold on…but for how much longer? These free tools below all act as free virtual business cards. No trees were harmed in the writing of this blog post.

Card.ly

Perhaps the most Web 2.0-looking virtual business card on our list, Card.ly gives you a single page to display all of the assets of your online presence. Register for free, validate your email address, and begin adding social networks from a dropdown menu. Simply add your user name for each Website.

Sprinkle in the personal details you want to share, a thumbnail image and any additional links/feeds and you are on your way.

A series of skins give you a chance to stand out from the crowd.

Your Card.ly can be embedded on your Website, giving visitors easy access to a slick looking group of icons that link to all of your social network activity. You may also place a snippet of code that tells visitors of your vCard.

A premium account ($25 a year or $3 a month) gives you more skin options, zero ads, the ability to use your own domain name, unlimited RSS feeds on a page and a stat counter.

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BusinessCard2 is “the world’s first Internet business card.” With several hundred thousand users, the site strives to provide professionals with an online marketing platform. Users can customize their card by adding as much or as little info as they want, and it is fully searchable by the major search engines.

The site has multiple uses. First, it helps people connect over the Web. It takes a person’s professional life and increases the availability to an audience that would otherwise be inaccessible. With the importance being placed on personal branding these days, it could be a great way to increase Web presence. The second use of BusinessCard2 is to allow bloggers to interact with their audience. By using the service, the blogger’s card is accessible by the readers, and the readers can leave their cards on the site, too. The final way for users to take advantage of BusinessCard2 is by providing a way to research anyone with their own card. Imagine being able to instantly get the information of a local expert on a problem you’re dealing with. You could also find out the contact info for a professional halfway around the globe through a search.

Free membership provides exposure to a worldwide audience, 500MB of free file storage, and a centralized point for providing contact information to other professionals. The BusinessCard2 team lets visitors to the site know that they value user privacy by stating, “BusinessCard2 takes all reasonable precautions to keep your information safe and secure.” With all of the data security concerns in the news daily, it’s a relief to know that they are watching your back.