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28th

Plaxo Alpha Preview

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I’ve been a huge fan of Plaxo ever since I saw it for the first time. I maintain address books online and offline in about a dozen places, including my cell phone. In addition I have a LinkedIn account. Keeping on top of all of them is daunting… if it weren’t for Plaxo.

Imagine if everyone you knew maintained their address information in your address book so you never had to touch it… that’s Plaxo! You ’subscribe’ to your contacts’ work or home information on Plaxo and whenever you sync your address books, Plaxo takes care of the rest. There’s even a very intelligent de-duper that will combine information from 2 or more cards and allows you to view the merge and approve it.

I logged into Plaxo this afternoon and got a wonderful surprise - up by the login was an invitation to a Plaxo Preview. When I clicked it, I was brought into a wonderful new Plaxo home page - including an address book, calendar, all my sync sources and even some new items, like browser-based Instant Messaging from Meebo, ecards, tasks, notes, weather, maps by Yahoo! and even Click to Call Voice over IP by Jajah!

Plaxo Alpha Preview

For anyone who networks as much as I do, this tool is a must have! I can even access it via mobile-browser with a fantastic lean interface that’s quick and easy to use.

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10 Comments »

Comment by Alpesh Nakar
2007-05-28 20:41:50

Yep! I just love it :-)
 
Comment by Nick Halstead
2007-05-29 04:39:48

Hi Doug,

Do you use the premium service? Some of the premium features included like ‘contact de-duper’ are things that really should be in the standard service, but I can understand the business case why it is not. But I do like the idea of integrating with my LinkedIn profile.

And mobile access would also be a massive benefit, although I already using iSync on my Mac to sync the address book with my N95. But it would simplify things to have it all come from one source.

Comment by Douglas Karr
2007-05-29 07:52:37

Hi Nick,

Yes, I do pay for the premium service. The new sync will sync with your Mac Address book and iCal! The de-duper is a must have, I agree.

Doug

 
 
2007-05-29 07:55:11

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Comment by Tony Chung dot CA
2007-05-29 11:47:18

Okay Doug, I drank the Kool-aid and downloaded the toolbar for Outlook. I’m pretty sure this is what I’ve been looking for. Sweet!
Comment by Douglas Karr
2007-05-29 19:43:19

You won’t be disappointed, Tony! I didn’t lead you astray on the hosting, right? :)
 
 
Comment by Derek
2007-05-30 11:06:40

You’re welcome, Doug.
 
Comment by bill
2007-06-14 21:39:48

You should check out spock.com. I moved all my plaxo contacts to spock.com. It’s a totally cool application. It is what plaxo should have been.
Comment by Douglas Karr
2007-06-14 22:38:29

I applied for an invite to Spock, but I don’t see how it can beat Plaxo! I’ll give it a whirl, though!
 
 
2008-04-23 11:08:42

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