Comments on: Plaxo Prepares To Launch Pulse Social Network – Will Users Trust It?

By: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » What Networking Tools Should I Use? LinkedIn, Skype, Plaxo, Facebook… ???

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:59:49 +0000

[...] really recommend it because I don’t use it (I might one day). Bonus: Plaxo just came out with their own social network, further muddying the [...]

By: E-sniper » Blog Archive » This Week’s Plaxo Merger Rumor: Google

E-sniper » Blog Archive » This Week’s Plaxo Merger Rumor: Google — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:25:44 +0000

[...] Did Google buy them? The two companies are certainly friendly. Plaxo has been a big supporter of Google Open Social from the start, and has consistently adopted new Google social products. And Google’s new Social Graph API gels nicely with what Plaxo has done with Pulse. [...]

By: This Week’s Plaxo Merger Rumor: Google

This Week’s Plaxo Merger Rumor: Google — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:52:14 +0000

By: Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Pulse, red social de Plaxo

Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Pulse, red social de Plaxo — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:31:42 +0000

[...] Vía | Cnet | Techcrunch. [...]

By: » Zyb, The Mobile Social Network Tech Web Daily: Just another Tech News Blog

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:03:27 +0000

[...] Zyb, The Mobile Social Network Posted By: Published in Contributors 21Aug The idea of taking an address book application and turning it into a social network isn’t new – Plaxo just did it two weeks ago. [...]

By: Plaxo Pulse goes the Fidgt way « connected everywhere

Plaxo Pulse goes the Fidgt way « connected everywhere — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:05:32 +0000

[...] Fidgt does. Create a social address book. Read something more about Plaxo pulse here, here, here, here and [...]

By: TechZilo

TechZilo — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:22:37 +0000

Greasemonkey scripts for GMail…

Greasemonkey is an extension for Firefox. Some folk say its the most useful of all Firefox extensions. While that is an exaggeration, it is partly true. I consider Greasemonkey as one of the more useful extensions. And it is among my limited collection…

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:40:44 +0000

No more new social networks…please.

By: RYK

RYK — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:17:19 +0000

Plaxo is just too advanced for me…I mean this sync and all…it created all kinds of duplicate entries in my google calendar and then deleted my calendar. Luckily Google restored my calendar.

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:50:50 +0000

Michael, so why does Spoke (www.spoke.com) never get mentioned when talking about people search and business people social networks? Just not on your radar?

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:25:42 +0000

I like how they spend all that effort on the front page telling me how they work the way I want to work and how integrated and wonderful they are, so I sign up and THEN it tells me it only supports two browsers and mine isn’t one of them. Sheesh.

By: DK

DK — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:22:21 +0000

How many websites are going to steal/clone/imitate Facebook (not sure if they are the originator)? I would like to see something new. Seriously, I need another social network site like I need another hole in my head.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:09:49 +0000

@28: My prediction is that there will be profile hosting services and profile feature providers.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:48:05 +0000

Thinking about Plaxo makes me tired.

By: Nemrut

Nemrut — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:27:01 +0000

Mike, your writing skills are going downhill…

By: teddlesruss

teddlesruss — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:18:17 +0000

If New Plaxo “2.0″ can steal the laurels, I say good on it. But at last check (about five minutes ago just to be sure I wasn’t talking out my ass) I saw this:

“XXXXX has been temporarily disabled. We are working diligently to resolve the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

A few months ago XXXXX was working, and YYYYY was not. When I pointed that out I was told that “yeah we know about that but it’s in the too hard basket…” and is still in the too hard basket. Pulse has actually got less functionality now compared to back then. And to top it off there is a serious problem in the Pulse RSS reader.

That’s the problem, nothing is stable enough to offer any real competition yet. So to get around FB’s “walled garden” as Scoble puts it, I tend to keep my content off that site and link it instead. I will keep checking back on Plaxo but at this stage I won’t be transferring my affections totally to it.

As some people have pointed out, there are more social networking sites, and Next Shiny Object Syndrome (NSOS) will keep driving a significant portion of people to those new startups – but in order to keep those people they either have to have a compelling product a la Twitter or else a degree of useability equivalent to Facebook.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:09:10 +0000

I didn’t trust Plaxo couple years back because of the spam, but now I do. It’s been making some interesting and well-intentioned moves, such as an open platform and the pledge to stop spam. Companies change, and I am willing to give Plaxo one more try (which I did).

I am happy to see that social identities are becoming more standardized and portable, just like how we can move our OPMLs across different readers. This is what aggregators like ours, http://www.spokeo.com and http://www.peop...eaggregator.com, have been trying to push for. And I am happy that Plaxo shares our thoughts.

By: Andrew Pass

Andrew Pass — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:59:33 +0000

Robert Scoble indicates, I think correctly, that Facebook is going to remain the most popular social network site. However, I’m confident that there will be room for the likes of Plaxo. In a world of multiple social network sites there’s a need for an aggregate site that allows users to combine different sites, catering to different niches, onto one platform. Enter MyLifeBrand.com. Take a look at it, it’s incredible. http://www.mylifebrand.com

By: Chuck Brown

Chuck Brown — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:37:59 +0000

Not a chance. Plaxo has NEVER shown the slightest respect for its users…force-updating contact info, etc.

None of their software will ever be on my system again.

By: Rumory.com

Rumory.com — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:33:57 +0000

Plaxo is great, I have used it for 3+ years. However, the world is NOT ready for another social network circled around Plaxo especially. Members like plaxo because of it’s simplicity, organization and it’s core idea.

Not sure they are ready to take it to the next level

By: Gorthos

Gorthos — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:24:50 +0000

I too wish to like it but damned if it just isn’t facebook and being Canadian, I am facebook OCD…. argh

By: EH

EH — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:14:51 +0000

Funny. I could be said to be receiving “pulses” of spam over the past couple of months: always 5-7 emails of the same subject line at the same time.

That said, the Facebook API development is a watershed event in social networks, but it looks like people are still thinking of “social network” as something owned and closed off. I guess if the VCs are suckers for that story I can’t blame Web2.0.1beta MBAs for exploiting it, but as far as the internet goes it’s getting a little old.

By: Narendra

Narendra — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:52:11 +0000

Mike,

Ahem, 30 Boxes started the news feed for social networks as Buddy Updates.

By: markg

markg — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:30:10 +0000

Too late to the game. Get new developers, get new mgmt!

By: techmine

techmine — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:14:30 +0000

The core functionality still makes me happy. The ability to keep your address information up-to-date. My address books now syncs across my 2 macs at home and my office PC with windows mobile phone. Now these are too many touch points but so far Plaxo has been doing good. There are some issues with duplicates. Premium service resolves the problem of duplicates but how the hell the info gets duplicated, I don’t know. I think it is induced in the free service so that you buy the paid one.