I’ve been a bit lukewarm about Plaxo in the past, but since setting up my online Plaxo account – I don’t use Outlook or Outlook Express – to catch all those annoying Plaxo reminders, I’ve been amazed how many times people have been changing their contact details.
The clincher, though, is that I caught up with an old client who had subtly changed his work e-mail address for some reason, and whose previous e-mail address was just bouncing. Logging on to Plaxo, I found the change, all logged and ready for me.
Umm. It’s so tempting just to add everyone to the thing and be done with it.
Don’t worry. I’m still operating a strictly permission-only policy, because I know how annoying Plaxo can be if you’ve decided not to use it.
In the meantime, if we’ve e-mailed each other, please feel free to add me to your Plaxo set-up.
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You may be interested in this eWeek article, in which a formerly suspicious columnist decides to recommend Plaxo after a meeting with some of the company’s co-founders and senior executives: http://snipurl.com/9l9p
Thanks for that, Adam.
I had seen that piece – it’s a very good piece of PR for Plaxo, but it does very nicely reflect my feelings about the service and its associated software.
What seemed dubious in the past, is now feeling mature and is making a very persausive case for itself to be in my business life.
Now, are they going to give me a Thunderbird version?
David – I’d like to invite you and others to join our Plaxo Developers forum located at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaxodev/. With the recent release of our Plaxo API, we are helping to facilitate grass-root efforts within the developer community to develop additional plugins and applications that can plug into the Plaxo infrastructure.
Perhaps there are a number of developers out there who might be interested in developing a Thunderbird version of Plaxo. The Plaxo Developer Forum would be the place to discuss such development efforts with other Plaxo developers and our own engineering.
Regards,
Stacy Martin
Plaxo Privacy Officer
privacy @t plaxo.com
David — I don’t know if you stuck with your earlier Linux experiments, but if so you might be interested in a couple of shell scripts I found in the Plaxo forums. They can be used to download Plaxo data and import it into an LDAP database for use in a Linux e-mail client, such as Evolution (my personal fave: ).
You can find the shell scripts at http://snipurl.com/9l9n
Oh and Stacy, if you’re looking for more invitees to the Plaxo Dev Forum, you ought to get in touch with NoLuck and wimpunk from that forum thread. One expressed an interest in writing an interface between Evolution and Plaxo, and the other whipped up the shell scripts. With the API now available, those two could do some very interesting things.
Doh! Left out the Evolution link. http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/
If you’re still looking for an e-mail solution, it’s worth a shot.
Thanks for all that.
Stacy – I’ve joined the forum, but as a writer of words rather than code, I’m not sure how much use I’ll be.
Adam – I have the Community version of Mandrake 10 running happily on an old machine, dual booting with Win 2K. That’s about as far as it will go until Open Office becomes a viable alternative to MS Office for a business user who has to exchange files with clients and partners all day and every day, when I’ll make a further decision on whether Linux takes a central role in my business life.
In the meantime, it’s good for testing some of the Web sites I’m involved in
Thanks Adam. I’ll check it out.