Happen to agree strongly w/ EE on tech advantages and future expansion oppty’s for FB, but definitely not at those crazy multiples

There are only Google Ads (Adsense) on their website…so does this mean that Plaxo earned 12 million from Adsense…

Is this true ? Can anybody tell ?

I thought to myself, I basically pay Plaxo for two things – (1) is to link with my network (which I can get from Facebook or LinkedIn for free) and (2) for sorting out duplicates in my address book for $49.95 a year.

The way things are looking I can just cancel my Plaxo renewal, no need to pay for what is free. To complete the sync loop I then sync my Blackberry 8800 with Yahoo Mail and I’m a one real Happy Bunny!

Now with all this talk of Plaxo putting itself up for sale, maybe there is something going on between Yahoo and Plaxo.

It makes sense since only recently Jerry Yang demo’ed Yahoo 3.0 with talk of wiki thread features for email amongst others new features.

Just me thinking aloud!

I was right about News Corp. trying to buy LinkedIn, and in fact, that story was covered in TechCrunch UK, first. I guess you’re confused because LinkedIn refused to sell, and you thought that meant there was never any offer made, or something?

Tell me what story I’ve actually gotten wrong….

How do you like them apples?

Oooh. Michael Arrington says that the brouhaha over Facebook buying Plaxo is all false so far and that even though Plaxo is up for sale (since quite some time actually), this deal is not exactly history. He comes up with the numbers and says that if …

One of their replies, from an officer of the company, told me that for them to stop spamming me, I had to go to their site, make an account, and opt out.

Their model of stealing and profiting off other people’s contacts has been wrong from the start, and it is still wrong.

If facebook was to have such technology and improve upon it I would see this as being a HUGE asset.. imagine having your phone up to date ALWAYS with your friends latest phone numbers and addresses updated by them? No need to email all your friends to find their latest addresses to send christmas cards.. its kept up to date because they are your friends on facebook. I see facebook doing away with the traditional Outlook Contacts or paper address books with this technology.

My 2 cents..

I spoke to Joseph about Plaxo becoming a openid provider i.e http://myname.plaxo.com, better microformat support (hcard, xfn, hatom), offline capabilties via google gear and much more.

Sadly although we were in violent agreement none of it actually happened?

Plaxo could have been the open version of FB with its plaxo/pulse (lifestream) combination but now it seems a sale is the best option out but what does $100m actually get you?

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

Nevertheless I don’t see any strategic benefits in this deal, facebook can simply copy the technology from Plaxo. I think that a company like IAC can benefit far more from taking over Plaxo because they can promote Plaxo in there large network of site and increase revenue and subscriptions. Meanwhile facebook should focus on increasing revenue by finding more advertisers.

As for whether there’s a sound reason, well, I find it difficult to see a sound reason for buying anything at 10 times revenue (profit? whassat?) so I can’t comment.

The FB strategy of raising money at the top of the market and using it to buy better performing assets whilst broadening the reach and position with a more serious business user audience sounds like a good one.

If what you say is correct for the 2007 figures of Plaxo of say 12M, then it would be safe to say they are earning like 1M a month to 1.8M monthly uniques visits or roughly 56 cents per visit

I heard FB had 100M for 2006, not sure for 2007 but there are reports it was pegged at around 150M vs 100 milion uniques per month which translates to 12.5 million per 100million visits per month OR roughly 12.5 cents per visit

Hmmm. so is Plaxo monetizing 4x the rate of facebook?

Tell that to Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey Brin — who might actually listen. Mightbe. Mightbe not.