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- The Penguin and the Processor: Enabling Plaxo to Keep Customers Connected
- Plaxo helps millions around the world enrich their connections with the people they know and care about. The company operates a large and fast growing network of networked address books - hosting over 50 million accounts - and is bringing those address books to life with its next-generation social network,...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Connected Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2008-10-25
- 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
- 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
- News to know: Macworld; OOXML; Google; Tech's economic pulse
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft Independent study backs OOXML. EU launches new probe against Microsoft Macworld: David Morgenstern: Will Macs star at this year's Macworld Expo? Jason O'Grady: The calm before...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Macworld, Software As A Service (SaaS), Desktops, Hd Dvd, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- 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
- News to know: Intel-OLPC divorce; iPod diagnostics; Vostro; Patch preview
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Intel's OLPC pullout sets up XO vs Classmate PC duel Christopher Dawson: OLPC and Intel part ways. What would my ideal education ultraportable look like? Techmeme. David Morgenstern: Testing the iPod's secret diagnostic tools Robin Harris: Microsoft...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Wireless LANs, Digital Music, Digital Media, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- 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
- Facebook, social capitalists and open networks
- As the stock market roller coaster continues, the concept of social capital accrued via social networks is starting to become an important commodity. People are flocking to Facebook and other social networks, partly to experience the latest online trend and for those who latch on to a particular network, to...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- 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
- Plaxo 3.0 gets social with multi-way synch
- Plaxo has eliminated the annoying spam-like email feature from its synchronization service, and this week introduced the beta of version 3.0, which now offers multi-way sync of contacts and calendar between various services from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Mac, Thunderbird, and mobile phones."Plaxo has not always had the best public...
- Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-24
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