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- tonicboy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34Maybe it's just me, but I never liked the idea of giving all my personal contact info to an online company. Especially as they don't charge any money and don't really have much advertising to speak of, so exactly how are they making their money? Just about the only valuable asset they have is my personal info and that of all my friends. Millions of emails from all their customers. Makes you wonder.
- LiberalsSuckAss, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Plaxo will never be "revolutionary to world of data management" until they figure out how to stop sending me unwanted junk mail from idiots who I could care less about just because they've got me in their address book.
I don't care if some schmuck I exchanged messages with 6 months ago joined your "revolutionary" service. If he was someone I wanted to communicate with, he'd already have my latest contact information (which has not changed in over 12 years, thank you very much).
Screw Plaxo till it bleeds out its butthole. - dcharti, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12They make their money because a good portion of their users upgrade to their various paid services. Offering some services for free allows a lot of people to try it out, and eventually as they come to rely on the service, they might upgrade at a later date.
- alwaysnomadic, on 11/18/2008, -0/+4The gmail contacts-mobile/cell use is/will be a pay service (after trial). I don't need to pay a dollar a week for that.
Google MUST soon come up with some sync solutions for Outlook & phones (please). - tonicboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The difference is that I trust gmail/hotmail/yahoo. They have profitable business models based on advertising. Someone is arguing that Plaxo is making money from premium services, but I just can't see very many people sending their "e-Cards" when there are dozens of bigger players in that market, or paying $50/year for the Premium service which pretty much only offers duplicate contact removal (woo-hoo, big deal) and more than 1,000 contacts. If they're not making money in a way that I can clearly see, then I'm suspicious of them, that's the bottom line.
- constantskeptic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4yes indeed
- sensia3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Gee, that sucker is back? It is one of th emost annoying crap I have ever delt with.
- chazzbro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I didn't mind advertising their service thru the signature they provided...but when you couldn't just TURN OFF all that "sync to your friends" crap...off it came. And frankly, HTML signatures are just an invitation to get chomped by spam filters anyway. I am back to simple text with one URL, until filters get a lot better. You can KEEP you revolution, thanks.
- cdigger21, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3BEWARE, I tried this out and sync'd my outlook and google calendar with Plaxo but it took the two distinct calendars that I keep (to have separate colors) in my google calendar, my outlook (from work) and melded them all into one "calendar" in google calendar and deleted the original versions. I then spent the next 4 hours selecting each event and assigning it back to their separate google calendars. Royal pain in the @$$ and I won't be using this service anymore. I agree, Google HAS to come up with the solution since so many people seem to want this feature.
- tonicboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Huh? Not sure where the Google porn thing is coming from, but it would be incredibly easy for Plaxo to sell data on the DL and get away with it. Do you know how I know? Because the thousands of spam in my mailbox every day tell me that lots of lots of companies are in the business of selling my personal information, despite "privacy policies" Some people are way too trusting, I tell you.
- bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2who the hell searches for porn on google?
- romanxau, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Gmails contact books as way to many limitations for it to be productive for the hardcore users.
- Amything, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I use Gmail and Gcal for work and personal, so nothing really to sync. Not sure how this will help me?
- akaharry, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1I have been using plaxo for years, never had any spyware issues and it is great to keep everything synced, my mac, my outlook, my phone, everything
only issue i am having is the 10000 entry limit. I wish I could pay for more - dkla, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Wow, do you really use your real identity when filling out your card on Plaxo?
Sincerely,
John Q. Fakename - javaroast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Get real? Ok, I won't support a company like Plaxo who is most famous for spamming the crap out of contact list. Yeah, yeah, I know they've apparently stopped that... but it's too little, too late. Plaxo IS shady and I hope they are killed.
- anillop, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2So how do they make money with their minimal amount of advertising? Something doesn't add up here so when in doubt its best just to avoid the product altogether.
- withincontext, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4Ever hear of a Privacy Policy? You're like my aunt. She won't buy anything online because she thinks someone is parked across the street in a van just waiting to steal her credit card number. Oh, and she's on dial-up and not wireless.
- tnatharik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Damnit i thought it was private invite. I got mine yesterday.
- roland, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0You get paid by the hour or per post? Maybe some salary marketeer getting a stiffie with all this exposure. Oh by the way plaxo will email everyone on your contact list insisting that YOU want THEM to JOIN plaxo so everyone can be happy.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1You've got me worried now. Proof?
- saltedlolly, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Sorry, Roland, but that is just not the case. In the past Plaxo made it a little to easy for inexperienced users to accidently message their whole address book, but they removed this function over a year ago and I think everyone would agree that the volume of update requests has dropped significantly.
- withincontext, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3If your contacts use Plaxo, then anytime they update their contact information it will replicate in your address book. You'll never lose track of friends from school, colleagues, or friends-with-benefits. It's all tied to the e-mail address you have stored for a contact. If it matches an e-mail address in their system, then the connection is made automatically.
- silverspyder, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4too bad Plaxo is spyware.
- techie34290, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2What privacy? So, you don't mind searching for porn on Google, but all hell breaks lose if Plaxo gets a few phone numbers and email addresses. Get real, people! Do you think Plaxo would steal the information and live to tell about it. Shady things like these leak very easily, and once they get around, people will completely stop using the service and kill the company. Some people are way too paranoid, I tell you.
- jsls, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2It's cool, but has been buggy and crashes firefox...
- Scruffydan, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5This is no different than people who keep their address book with gmail/hotmail/yahoo
- toaday, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1There is none, because it isn't I've been using Plaxo for four years now, and it is most assuredly NOT spyware.
- Hilton, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1The new online interface to Plaxo is a rich AJAX web application, with multiple components, presented in a seamlessly integrated, interactive environment. Read More: http://news.taume.com/Technology/Internet/Plaxo-3_0-1687
- cricktoast, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0If you sync your contacts with Plaxo and your computer dies, you just setup Plaxo on your new computer and it recovers all your contacts. It's nice not worrying about backing up my contact list. I'm very happy with their free service.
- someone, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3Passwords between 6 to 10 characters. Screw this! 24 FTW
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