Posts Tagged with ‘plaxo’

There is an interesting announcement today for everyone exploring opportunities of using VoIP telephony instead of regular calls on their cell phones to cut costs. Mobivox and Unyk announce partnership today and this partnership is intended to offer quite an interesting combination of services to mobile users.
Mobivox is a Montreal-based company that provides a range of various VoIP services to its customers - some free, others pretty cheap. Unyk is also based in Montreal (which sounds very much like the [...]

It is rather disturbing to see everything free online and users revolting even because of web services making them watch some ads to earn at least something to sustain their businesses. Today we are going to see another example of a product switched to a free model - this time by Vancouver-based Calgoo Software.
Basically, Calgoo is a suite of calendar tools that allows you to have a single desktop calendar solution that synchronizes all your calendars across different platforms, including [...]

I'm starting to think I may just want to skip right over the rest of 2008 and start fresh in 2009 when companies come to their senses. First HP decides to acquire support service dinosaur EDS, then Comcast snaps up Plaxo (all the better to throttle your bandwidth AND that of your social graph, my pretties!), and now CBS buys CNET.
I'm sure CNET is ecstatic about the news; several of their properties have been financially struggling now for what seems [...]

My favorite Web 2.0 pundit, Drama 2.0 , wrote a guest article for Mashable that's generated an interesting debate about the Web 2.0 audience. In the article, Drama 2.0 asserts that Data Portability is all about the techies. While eventually, it may end up being used by the unwashed masses, the only people clamoring for the ability to port all their data from one app to another are people who are power-users of any app to begin with. In other [...]

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. Trent Adams (MatchMine) and Jim Meyer (LinkedIn).
Chris Saad opened the meeting with introductions and explaining the new hierarchy of the Google Groups set up for [...]

Everyone on Twitter today has been holding their collective breath waiting for 1 PM PST, when Duncan Riley's post at TechCrunch would go live. The big news? Facebook, Google, and Plaxo joined the Data Portability Workgroup.
I suppose, for me at least, this huge news was actually a let-down. Anyone who followed last week's PR debacle when Facebook banned Robert Scoble really should have seen this coming. They already faced down the backlash over Beacon, so this seemed like a [...]

Having received an invitation to join Connectture from one of my Plaxo business contacts and ever being on the prowl for options to expand my network in the most affirmative and proficient manner possible I decided to test it out.
As always, I start my evaluations of anything new with what my first impressions are. I will admit Connectture has a great icebreaker when it comes to first impression presentation. All those cheery faces and the enticing fact that Connectture [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

Being new to online social networking, I still find myself becoming excessively lavish when discovering new ways to connect. That is not to say I am excessively foolish and connect for the sake of connecting, although I was guilty of becoming lax with Plaxo in the beginning. In reality, I use Plaxo more than any other network program now to seek and develop my online network in conjunction with LinkedIn.
As I try to strengthen my network connections, I am also [...]