What is Plaxo?
Plaxo keeps you in touch with people you care about. When fellow Plaxo members you’re connected with move to a new home, change their cell phone number or change jobs, you’ll know… and your address book will be updated automatically. Plaxo’s core service is free, and accessible from the Web and selected e-mail programs. You can become a member quickly and easily and begin using Plaxo right away. Plaxo connects you to people you already know. You’re always in full control. You can mark your contact information public or private with just a couple of clicks and select exactly who gets your info. You can access your information when you want it, where you need it. Your calendar on your work computer. Your to-do list on your home computer. Your address book on your phone. Plaxo keeps you connected by keeping your information in-sync anytime, anywhere. Your data remains safe, secure, and backed up — free! We use state of the art technologies to protect your data. We even make backups for
Plaxo is a new service on Comcast.net that offers a better way to stay connected with the people you know and care about. Plaxo is like a personal news page that automatically shows you what your family, friends, and business connections are sharing from all over the Web. Currently, people are using many different sites to find and share content, write restaurant or product reviews, or uploading photos and videos. Finding this type of content and keeping up with all of your friends can be difficult. With Plaxo, there is no need to search for your friends on multiple websites to see what they are doing. Visit www.plaxo.com to see what all of your friends are creating, discovering, and sharing online. You can add comments or “likes” and refresh your browser from time-to-time to see the latest updates.
Plaxo: “Plaxo is a new tool that enables you to automatically update your address book. You no longer have to worry about whether your contact list is up-to-date.” This beta software plugs into Outlook and updates your contact list through simple e-mails. I kind of recall having seen something similar in the past, but don’t remember from whom. Contact information from other Plaxo users auto-updates itself. This, along with Cloudmark, shows ISPs wake up to the fact that Outlook is such a prevalent client that it’s worth targeting as a platform. A nice feature: it automatically preselects the people you correspond most frequently with, as the most likely people who want to keep fresh contact info with you. Strangely though, it seems you have to fill up your card in their app, as opposed to using an Outlook contact (yes, I have a contact about myself.) There’s someone from Napster behind this, as well as big name advisors (Moritz, Koogle, Shawning). Does that explain why this software is
