Due to the recent changes on Plaxo/Pulse, I think Plaxo has lost a lot of its usefulness as a contacts/address book updating tool. As I haven't been able to send out update requests since the changes, the only thing I am really using it for at present, is for address book synchronisation. Whilst some of my contacts previously signed up to Plaxo, a lot of them did not - though they were still happy to respond to the update requests I would regularly send them through Plaxo. For these contacts, I now have no automated way of getting their updated contact details, unless they also sign up for Plax/Pulse. Most of them are not keen to do this, as some already use other networking sites such as Facebook, which is much better known, appears more advanced, and is more visually appealing than the Pulse network.
Jan Burnett-McKeown
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Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:06 AM
Subject: [plaxo] Re:Plaxo decay
One more voice added to the disappointment with what Plaxo has become. To be honest, I somewhat expected a decline in service of some sort when they were gobbled up by Comcast, but this is getting ridiculous. I joined Plaxo - as a Premium member - specifically because of the features that (a) enable me to synchronize multiple address book applications on multiple computers, and (b) receive automatic CONTACT INFORMATION updates from people I already know who are also members. I have invited a few people to join, but I'm not one to bombard everyone in my contact list. Likewise, I have added some stuff to Pulse, but I can happily do without it. (I use LinkedIn for business networking, and I'm too busy for a lot of social networking.) I liked Plaxo the way it was pre-Pulse. Now, I am searching for a replacement. If I can't find one, I guess I'll have to create my own database in OpenOffice and then quit from this. Unless, of course, Plaxo makes some changes.
Mind you, I don't have any beef with the existence of Pulse. I just don't want to be REQUIRED to use it, and I don't want Pulse to - as it has - detract from the core contact management functionality that I signed up for. I would be very happy with a contacts-only option that is restored back to the way it used to be.
Graeme
A disappointed customer
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