Comments on: Plaxo? Well, well, well. An old friend suddenly turns heads. http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/ An Insider's view on IT-Social for the Enterprise Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: ckeene http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-196 ckeene Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:10:37 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-196 Plaxo is the anti-brand for Web 2.0. They have so much negative goodwill left over from their initial spammy "please help me update me address book on a weekly basis" roots that it is next to impossible for me to convince me friends how useful they've begun. Thanks for helping to chip away at that resistance! Plaxo is the anti-brand for Web 2.0. They have so much negative goodwill left over from their initial spammy “please help me update me address book on a weekly basis” roots that it is next to impossible for me to convince me friends how useful they’ve begun. Thanks for helping to chip away at that resistance!

]]> By: » OpenID for unlocking enterprise value | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-201 » OpenID for unlocking enterprise value | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:01:27 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-201 [...] come up with the answer but somehow I don’t quite see it. This led me to consider Plaxo and Susan Scrupski’s critique: The only major issue I had with assigning categories to my existing contacts is there are so darn [...] [...] come up with the answer but somehow I don’t quite see it. This led me to consider Plaxo and Susan Scrupski’s critique: The only major issue I had with assigning categories to my existing contacts is there are so darn [...]

]]> By: Joseph Smarr http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-197 Joseph Smarr Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:45:13 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-197 @Craig, I agree, this is ultimately a social challenge, and it will be interesting to see what the right answer turns out to be. We've taken a first step by letting you categorize people into family, friends, and business contacts, so that provides some level of filtering, and we'll be adding more on-the-fly abilities to turn off people/feeds/etc that you don't want to see. But I think the big deal is that over time, more not less of your friends and business contacts will be living online lives, some of which you want to be able to keep in touch with, and so you'll need tools to help you because otherwise there's just too much data scattered across too many sites to manage on your own. Thanks for the feedback! js @Craig, I agree, this is ultimately a social challenge, and it will be interesting to see what the right answer turns out to be. We’ve taken a first step by letting you categorize people into family, friends, and business contacts, so that provides some level of filtering, and we’ll be adding more on-the-fly abilities to turn off people/feeds/etc that you don’t want to see. But I think the big deal is that over time, more not less of your friends and business contacts will be living online lives, some of which you want to be able to keep in touch with, and so you’ll need tools to help you because otherwise there’s just too much data scattered across too many sites to manage on your own. Thanks for the feedback! js

]]> By: Craig Cmehil http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-198 Craig Cmehil Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:14:31 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-198 @Joseph, as I said the only advantage is just that. Finding out about them automatically, now I'm using it and it's in my list of "daily" sites, so I'm checking it each day. But now the question is how many people in your address book are people you have a strong enough connection to "care" as you put it? One of the negative aspects I see about the automatic linking of things with my address book - do I want all of them in a "social" network or are some there for other reasons? I have to give it to you though from a dev perspective - sweet app and nice integration and functionality!! But from the social aspect I feel pressured at the moment to "pay attention" to all of them and the 3 hotels and 6 taxi services I have in my address book not to mention the restaurants - where do I put those? ;-) Basically I'm just not sold enough yet to make it a "multiple times a day" app but at least once a day is for sure so far. Craig PS - I'm still watching it though and looking for the "hook" I need to make it a primary app for me. @Joseph, as I said the only advantage is just that. Finding out about them automatically, now I’m using it and it’s in my list of “daily” sites, so I’m checking it each day.

But now the question is how many people in your address book are people you have a strong enough connection to “care” as you put it? One of the negative aspects I see about the automatic linking of things with my address book – do I want all of them in a “social” network or are some there for other reasons? I have to give it to you though from a dev perspective – sweet app and nice integration and functionality!! But from the social aspect I feel pressured at the moment to “pay attention” to all of them and the 3 hotels and 6 taxi services I have in my address book not to mention the restaurants – where do I put those? ;-)

Basically I’m just not sold enough yet to make it a “multiple times a day” app but at least once a day is for sure so far.

Craig

PS – I’m still watching it though and looking for the “hook” I need to make it a primary app for me.

]]> By: Joseph Smarr http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-199 Joseph Smarr Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:17:26 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-199 @Craig, as a longtime heavy Bloglines user, my initial reaction to the idea of Pulse was the same as yours: "oh, this is something I already do with RSS". While it's certainly true that the "wow, i never knew all these people were doing things online" factor is greater for people that haven't been into RSS, I'm still amazed at how many more people I'm tracking in pulse now that it's automatically hooking people up based on my address book. Also, the range of content is much wider--photos, dugg articles, delicious links, twitter messagee, etc.--while in theory I *could* have manually found and subscribed to all this content, in practice I never would have. But the really remarkable (and frankly, unexpected) benefit of pulse is that you can see and feel all these people you care about reading and commenting on this content. When someone posts something that shows up in Pulse, you know everyone has seen it, you can see them making comments and you know who those people are. It's a much richer and more satisfying experience. Maybe you have to try it to see what I mean. :) Thanks, js PS: And Susan is right--this is just the beginning, and we already have a long todo list of great enhancements planned! @Craig, as a longtime heavy Bloglines user, my initial reaction to the idea of Pulse was the same as yours: “oh, this is something I already do with RSS”. While it’s certainly true that the “wow, i never knew all these people were doing things online” factor is greater for people that haven’t been into RSS, I’m still amazed at how many more people I’m tracking in pulse now that it’s automatically hooking people up based on my address book. Also, the range of content is much wider–photos, dugg articles, delicious links, twitter messagee, etc.–while in theory I *could* have manually found and subscribed to all this content, in practice I never would have. But the really remarkable (and frankly, unexpected) benefit of pulse is that you can see and feel all these people you care about reading and commenting on this content. When someone posts something that shows up in Pulse, you know everyone has seen it, you can see them making comments and you know who those people are. It’s a much richer and more satisfying experience. Maybe you have to try it to see what I mean. :)

Thanks, js

PS: And Susan is right–this is just the beginning, and we already have a long todo list of great enhancements planned!

]]> By: Susan Scrupski http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-200 Susan Scrupski Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:24:45 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-200 Hi Craig. I'm thinking Plaxo is just getting started. What's interesting about Plaxo is they have 15 MILLION users who are already engaging in online services (flickr, blogging, delicious, twitter, digg, etc.). They (their users) are the web, as I've heard them say before. I think Plaxo has a lot of potential. Let's see where they go with it. Hi Craig. I’m thinking Plaxo is just getting started. What’s interesting about Plaxo is they have 15 MILLION users who are already engaging in online services (flickr, blogging, delicious, twitter, digg, etc.). They (their users) are the web, as I’ve heard them say before. I think Plaxo has a lot of potential. Let’s see where they go with it.

]]> By: Craig Cmehil http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-202 Craig Cmehil Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:21:52 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-202 I have to admit though so far this is only making me consider removing your feeds from my Feed Reader, not seeing this as being a "huge" advantage other than when I connect to someone for the first time and might not know about their feeds to begin with? Seems more of a glorified feed reader than anything else... I have to admit though so far this is only making me consider removing your feeds from my Feed Reader, not seeing this as being a “huge” advantage other than when I connect to someone for the first time and might not know about their feeds to begin with?

Seems more of a glorified feed reader than anything else…

]]> By: Frank Hamm http://itsinsider.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-203 Frank Hamm Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:55:54 +0000 http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/plaxo-well-well-well-an-old-friend-suddenly-turns-heads/#comment-203 I discovered Plaxo only some weeks ago by accident when looking for having my addressbook and contacts stored online with access from almost everywhere. With the brand new Pulse and connecting to business network, friends and family I almost feel addicted to Plaxo :-) Just today I wrote a post on my blog in German but a friend wrote a short review of the new Pulse in English: <a href="http://www.notsorelevant.com/2007-08-07/plaxos-new-pulse/" rel="nofollow">Plaxo’s New Pulse</a> I discovered Plaxo only some weeks ago by accident when looking for having my addressbook and contacts stored online with access from almost everywhere.

With the brand new Pulse and connecting to business network, friends and family I almost feel addicted to Plaxo :-)

Just today I wrote a post on my blog in German but a friend wrote a short review of the new Pulse in English: Plaxo’s New Pulse

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