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but when i try to connect...all it does is show the loading symbol it never completes
I have a business life for which I use Plaxo & LinkedIn.
I have a social life for which I use Facebook.
I can mix some relationships "when I choose", but not most of the time.
My opinion is that this executive decision within Plaxo will result in the service being seen more as a social network. Others who remain focused on the business network niche such as LinkedIn will benefit from Plaxo's transition.
I think you guys on the Plaxo board have taken your eye off the ball, forgotten your core business and are scampering around to add any Tom, Dick & Harry to your network.
Next thing we know you'll be rebranding to "PlaxoBookFace" and colloborating with MySpace. You'll certainly get a lot of 15 yrs olds signed up!
Tut tut folks.
Last thing I want is they are getting my updates from facebook...
I have been burned before by 3rd party apps making changes and appropriating my details and information without my realising?
No this will not modify your settings on Facebook. Good question.
John
For me, this announcement is the reason to cancel my premium membership. I do not mind a company changing directions, but as it is clear that there is no interest in moving forward with what I signed up for, I am better off someplace else.
Sorry you're not happy with the evolution. Plaxo has always been about helping people stay connected with the people they care about across all the tools and services they use. Evolving with the changing landscape of tools and services is of vital importance in serving that mission.
Getting interoperability with Facebook is a major step forward for us, and it will open the door for more to come.
Bravo.
M Z MOUDARRES
CONSULTANT
maximus@gmail.com
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I'm a bit light on the details here though. How would the infamous Scoble "data portability" incident from last year play out in this brave new world?
Could you walk us through the steps...?
1. Mr Scoble decides he wants to export his contacts db from Facebook to Plaxo
1a. (2008 version) Plaxo export it for him, including email addresses. Hilarity ensues.
1b. (2009 version) A new era for the Internet dawns, and Mr Scoble and his Facebook buddies can now [to be completed]
Is it because of my french facebook ?
You are not alone
Same thing for me !
Up to now, I've used TwitterFeed to update Twitter using an RSS feed from Facebook. The latency here is 30 minutes maximum. Do you think Plaxo's status sync with Facebook (and Twitter from there) will match, or beat that latency?
When I first started using Plaxo it was a top-notch sync'ing tool.
I become a premier customer on July 1st, 2007... and have remained one every since.
When Plaxo decided to go down this "social networking" venture I put up with it.
Now it seems Plaxo cares less and less about helping to sync my data across multiple plateforms, and more about becoming some "social networking middle man".
The more that Plaxo releases news releases, the more I wondering why I keep paying for a premier membership.
I think, after reading this new release, I am done supporting a company that has gotten so far away from what they present their product as, as to justifiably say they no longer being the business provider they claim to be.
When just one of their four products ( http://www.plaxo.com/downloads ) consumes 100% of their time and effort, and the foundation for the business model upon which most of us became "Plaxo Premier Members" is thrown to the way-side, that is a clear indication it is time to discontinue supporting the business.
As nicolesimon has done for me, I would like to encourage the rest of you who are Premier Members shelling out money every year for a service that has gone beyond what it is we have paid for, to head over to http://www.plaxo.com/settings/premium and cancel your account.
I know it will never do any good, as Plaxo is clearly set in their minds and business model to nullify the heart of what made Plaxo Plaxo, but if nothing else, I can feel confident that I am no longer supporting a business which has forsaken me, a customer who signed up for one thing, and over the last year has had to endure a complete change in the services provided to me.
John
John
Good luck convincing Facebook!
information sources.
I know I frequently use twitter, facebook and linkedin as points of contact when I have
neglected to record someone's contact information.
Though I hope someday - y'all will do something like friend groups that livejournal
had so that I can parse then by persona a bit easier that just business, friend and family.
Cheers! - Silona
and um again proving the point of syncing information sources ;-)
so happy about this! Congrats !
Ron
pedro antonio moreno
Also, there is a fundamental tension between Pulse's social networking and address book syncing. Many of us who use the later value that it is "silent" i.e. plaxo members update one another's address books without any "friending", contact, or decisions about whether to share other information.
Also, I'm confused about the benefit to customers of using Pulse and Facebook over just using facebook alone. What is it?
WELL SAID !!!
peejayemm -- "It certainly appears to this soon to be former premium member of Plaxo that this company is a lot more interested in being a Facebook wannabe rather than a tool for a professional."
I hope you will join those of us who have become "former premier members of plaxo"... to show Plaxo that some of us are exactly what you've said here.... we want PLAXO BACK TO WHAT IT WAS.... not another stupid social networking tool.
If Comcast is so hell-bent on turning Plaxo into a social networking tool... they should buy more stocks in Facebook, and let Plaxo go back to what made Plaxo what is it.
I commend you peejayemm for voicing your opinions that some of us really do want change.
John
It tells me that I'm signed in to Facebook (which I am) and then a second "Request for special permissions window" pops up to tell me that "You must be logged in to Facebook to use this feature". What gives?
I looked around but not found much detail on privacy options.
A while back I stopped syncing my outlook with Plaxo due to the fact that all of my addresses were dupplicated and my entire directory was a total mess. It took plaxo such a long time to do something about it that i discontinued it's use in my equipment. Ever since then, plaxo has not been a trusted site for me, except for its cards service.
I would NEVER consider merging an untrusted bussines site like plaxo, with a totally open social network as FB is.
those are two totally different worlds and they should stay like that. If anyone here knows of a totally dependable business networking service, please recommend it to me.
We've always been focused on helping you stay connected with the people you know and care about across all the tools and services you (or they) use. That's gotten more complicated in an era when so many different services have emerged where people are sharing information about themselve and updating their contact info. We are trying to evolve with the times, while maintaining a focus on the core vision.
For those who thought we were only about "business," that is too narrow a view. A great address book helps you communicate with all the people you know and care about, including family, friends, and business contacts.
For those who think we've shifted too far in our focus on social networking, please be patient. As the web goes social and the Social Web goes open, we've got ever more opportunities to expand the vision for what an address book that connects with the various tools and services of the open Social Web can do for you.
Secondly, the call for patience rings a little hollow. I mentioned the disappearance of the LinkedIn sync link on the Plaxo forum on March 12, 2008, and got a response of be patient, we're working on it. Now 13 months later, another call for patience.
And abelajohnb, I did go in and stop the renewal of my Plaxo premium account and got a survey to fill out. I don't know who reads that stuff, but I was pretty clear on why I would not renew.
As to the question of "being oriented toward professionals," that is in fact the case. Our demographic is very similar to LinkedI, and we want to build a feature set that delights busy professionals. That said, a recent survey of our active users revealed that 60% of them also use Facebook -- and wanted us to make the two services work well together (while preserving fine-grained control of what they share with whom).
I assume this same maximum connections limitation is still in place in pulse and would be interested to find out if this would have an impact in the Scoble scenario above.
unheardvoices.com
ps the website could use a pro bono face lift...
How can we as a tech society, which promotes social separation with the use of the obvious: iPods, cell phones and laptops use said mediums bring us education, acceptance and discuss-ability of such topics.
Here is my work yet with the web it can be endless possibilities.
unheardvoices.com
ps. The website could use a pro bono face lift...
Actually it appears our mission is complimentary: At Plaxo, we believe we’re on the cusp of a major transformation – the biggest change to the Internet since the birth of the Web 15 years ago – as the Web goes social, and the Social Web goes open. For that dream to be realized, we need to address the pain currently associated with using multiple social websites. We need true interoperability and true data portability, with users in control.
At least I have a choice, I do have a choice don't I? I don't have to use the Facebook hook up.
To clarify, you do not have to hook up Facebook if you do not want to (or if you do not use it.)
Thanks,
Debra
What is the fuss about not wanting to mix your social Facebook network with your business plaxo network. If you don't like, just don't make the connection between the two systems...!
Maybe a solution is to have a default sharing setting for imported Facebook connections (same way as you have for business, family and friends, simply add "Facebook"). Then under connections » view connections, you can filter on all Facebook connections. Here you already have the option to "Change" the "Connected as" setting (although I don't like the way this now works with the different page you get when you click change. A simple drop down would be better, or a bit ajax like the delicious 'share' link would be much better and faster).
LinkedIn
I would like to see the sync with LinkedIn (back). Not so much for connection sharing (although that could work the same way as indicated above), but more for getting all LinkedIn contacts in my address book (I hate the LinkedIn plugin for Outlook).
Address sync in general
I would love to see Plaxo sync addresses with more systems (LinkedIn as a top priority). The only challenge is that there should be some sort of automatic and manual deduplication.
For !example! with the Plaxo «» MSN/Windows Live sync. If I accept a new messenger contact in Windows Live:
1) It is automatically added as a new contact in Plaxo (because there is no automatic linking/deduplication based on something simple like an email address).
2) I can't merge both (the original and new one) contacts. Also, because Plaxo (and Outlook) don't have a field to enter the Windows Live email address, I can't add that email address to the original (and complete!) contact. The only option I have is to manually copy over the details from the original contact into the new contact (from Windows Live) and then delete the original one. Which then course breaks the links between contact, calendar and task in Outlook.
Do you compare the hash value of email address between facebook users and Plaxo users? In my case, Plaxo could not find out my facebook friends in Plaxo using facebook connection service.
If I assume Plaxo compare the hash value of email address to find out matched friends, the following curiosity arise. Plaxo is supporting alternative sign in services such as OpenID, Yahoo ID, Google account, so if one of my friends has a facebook account with yahoo email and sign in Plaxo using OpenID with gmail account, it seems Plaxo can't find him. Is it right?
Regards.
want more control
Also can you do something about plaxo reposting a status update that is the same as my curent status on facebook.
Other then that thanks for this it is great! :-)
P.S
Is the plaxo forum, still being read by plaxo because there seems to be no official response to any of the comments also I can't seem to post anything on it (I have registered)
Is there an effort to offer some of the same interoperability between these two sites?
Thanks for crystalizing this. Yes, we would *love* to do something similar with LinkedIn. We did Facebook first, because we had access to APIs that would allow us to do a great integration. If we had similar access with LinkedIn, we would happily honor LinkedIn connections as business connections on Plaxo (and vice versa), and enable two-way flows of content.
If folks would like to see that, please express your desire to the team at LinkedIn. Thanks!
Mark
Connect to another Facebook account
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"need to be logged in to facebook" while i *am* logged in. half-baked concept.
Mark
PLAXO, WHATEVER IT IS. I ONLY SIGNED UP FOR FREE FACE BOOK. REMOVE MY NAME AND
ADDRESSES FROM BOTH AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU PRESUME TO BIND ME TO. YOU OUGHT TO BE SUED. IF I HAVE TO DROP COMCAST AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, I WILL AND GO TO VERIZON. GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE.
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