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30Boxes, the online calendar service, soft-launched their new people search engine today. The822 helps you to find more about a person by entering their email address – it returns information from social sites including your blog, Flickr account, Webshots photos and buddies, MySpace blog, Digg, EvokeTV and 30 Boxes itself. The name is a play on 411 (411×2=822) and the aim is to bolster 30Boxes’ efforts in the identity space. They also want to encourage outside developers to make use of their web services by building tools that fetch info about your 30Boxes contacts and buddies.

Thanks to the success of projects like Diaspora, Designing Obama and The Glif, more and more creatives are looking toward Kickstarter as a way to fund their projects.

The site makes it possible for individuals or groups to fund an album, finance a documentary film or publish a quarterly magazine by soliciting backers online. The brilliance of Kickstarter is in its all-or-nothing approach. This creates a huge incentive for project creators to really put a lot of thought into their project and to offer appropriate rewards for pledges.

There are more than a trillion URLs in Google’s index. Yes, that’s a one with twelve zeros after it. And Google crossed that milestone two and a half years ago. With so many sites on the web in 2011, how do you know which to pay attention to?

As president of Geben Communication, Heather Whaling provides public relations and social media services to small- and mid-size businesses. She’s also a public relations blogger, speaker and co-moderator of #pr20chat on Twitter.

Quora — the community-driven Q&A repository — is certainly getting a lot of buzz right now. Even though it’s known as a “social network for knowledge,” Quora isn’t just for the tech elite. Outside of the tech-centric or off-beat topics, there is an abundance of resources that appeal to a range of tastes.

Waking up and opening your laptop on Monday mornings has become a terrifying process. Between Gmail, Twitter, Yammer, Skype and Facebook, etc it seems like hundreds of people known and unknown are trying to contact you at any given time. Information overload and fragmentation has gotten so bad that there was even a The Office episode spoofing the still outstanding need for a Universal Inbox (what they called WUPHF) for all your messages.