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- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast buys PlaxoI canceled my account.RE: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast is entirely out of touch with what it's customers want. For instance, a 1 year discount on an overpriced service doesn't attract anyone who's been paying cable...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, user number, TV, Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., social networking, network
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast has acquired Plaxo in a move that aims to make the cable giant's interactive portfolio more social and potentially bring a little Web 2.0 to your set-top box. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but TechCrunch puts the deal at about $150 million to $170 million. Comcast has...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Network, Comcast Corp., Game Plan, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
- In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Did Google buy Plaxo?
- Did Google buy Plaxo?Good FitI think it is brilliant. Plaxo has been around for some time and I am a user for keeping business contacts upto date. I dhave not been thrilled with the "me-too-ism" of adopting or being adopted a "social-network" idea - although I can see...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Plaxo Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Did Google buy Plaxo?
- Rumor has it that Google agreed to purchase Plaxo for just under $200 million -- honestly though, I don't know why. If the deal actually happened, some people think it was probably to keep Plaxo assets from finding a new home at Facebook. I don't think that would...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Social Networking, Asset Management, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections
- Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Web, Category, API, Site, Friend, People Connection, Social Graph API, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Business execs snub Facebook
- Business execs snub FacebookIf my kids use it....My kids use facebook so how serious can it be as business tool, not much as far as I'm concerned. I'm on linkedin and have about 170 connections. But I've yet to find it a useful tool either. All I see is a...
- Tags: Facebook, Plaxo Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- OCPlaxoSync (zip)
- OCPlaxoSync is a Windows program that synchronizes your contacts information between Open Contacts and Plaxo. You may even choose what info to sync in order to gain benefits of online sync while keeping needed privacy. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., OCPlaxoSync, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-01-21
- Did Scoble break EU law on Facebook?
- I've been itching to get something written about Scoble's antics over on Facebook when he used the Plaxo script to scrape data as a way of pointing up what he believes is an issue around openness and data ownership. Way too much has been written but one aspect that was...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Scoble, Thomas, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Productivity, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Facebook's lack of data portability raises as many questions as provides answers
- Yesterday I reported on Robert Scoble's attempts to scrape data from his Facebook account for import to another social networking service. That data turned out to be names, email addresses and date of birth. The social network was Plaxo Pulse. From Scoble's blog: What does it...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Data, E-mail Address, Robert Scoble, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- What is Facebook's stance on data portability?
- The latest wrinkle on the controversy over importing Facebook data into Plaxo is that Facebook has reinstated Robert Scoble's 5,000 friend account per the following email and caveat in bold: Hi Robert, Facebook's Terms of Use broadly prohibits the running of automated scripts on the...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, E-mail, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Plaxo gives Facebook a litmus test
- The new year in social networking is picking up where it left off with Plaxo letting loose a Facebook data importer see Techmeme for the full debate. Robert Scoble was given an alpha version of Plaxo's Facebook contact data importer, and the Facebook engine shut him down. So far Facebook...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Data, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- OpenSocial unleashed into the wild
- Now that OpenSocial has been partially release into the wild, the effects on the ecosystem are being felt. TechCrunch reported on a hack of an application on Plaxo's OpenSocial-compliant host. Plaxo shut down the application. Plaxo's chief platform architect told Mike Arrington the OpenSocial platform is a work in progress...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Authentication/Encryption, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-03
- Forget Facebook think Plaxo
- Forget Facebook think PlaxoRE: Forget Facebook think PlaxoI could not agree more. Plaxo has been my main repository for contacts for a while now. I appreciat the little things like seemless adress changes and birthday reminders.Didnt forget Plaxo - tried it and lost data.It's not that we forgot...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Forget Facebook think Plaxo
- Today's center of attention is upon Google's acquisition of Jaiku and what it means for every man and his dog. In the meantime people forget about Plaxo. The last few days, some of my Irregular friends have had birthdays. Plaxo lets me know in advance the...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, Birthday, No., Social Networking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- OpenID for unlocking enterprise value
- Neville Hobson's views on OpenID struck a chord:It seems to me that OpenID is still a very early-adoption technology, the domain of serious geeks and tech enthusiasts.Well, I'm as enthusiastic as the next geek but I just don't really get OpenID yet.Since reading Neville's piece, I've been trying to contextualize...
- Tags: Groupware, Dennis Howlett, OpenID, Plaxo Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Plaxo and the Stone Age of the social Web
- Plaxo and the Stone Age of the social WebPeople, time and social networksIt's great to see the current development in social media. Some of these sites are really becoming a lot of fun. For me personally, the tools they offer are part of the reason why I join and use...
- Tags: Web, social networking, network, Plaxo Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Plaxo and the Stone Age of the social Web
- Plaxo's forthcoming entry into mainstream social networking with its Pulse service is all over TechMeme this morning. What was formerly a way to synch your contacts across various services is now taking a page from Facebook with RSS feeds from contacts, including from external services such as Amazon and YouTube....
- Tags: RSS, Web, Dan Farber, social networking, network, Stone Age, Plaxo Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Confessions of a social community subscribe-aholic
- I have subscribed to more social communities than I can keep up with ... and yet I keep clicking subscribe links. Some I bookmark, and some I don't. Most are clutter in my cyber-closet. My name is Maurene, and I'm a social community subscribe-aholic. In my reality, each one is important -- with bits and bytes...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Social media, Social communities, PIM
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
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