Social Networking Today

It's too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common webBusiness InsiderSee, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very simple things: 4. It gave me a simple CSV file with all that data so I could bring ...

Mark of one man on public FacebookSydney Morning HeraldParker had learnt a hard lesson himself about losing control: he was ousted by the backers of a company he founded, an online address book called Plaxo. Parker helped ensure that would never happen to Zuckerberg. In 2005, when Facebook got an early ...The Facebook IPO Players Club: Sean ParkerFast Companyall 8,151 news articles »

Zuckerberg remains the undisputed boss at FacebookNDTVMr. Parker had learned a hard lesson himself about losing control: He was ousted by the backers of a company he founded, an online address book called Plaxo. Mr. Parker helped ensure that would never happen to Mr. Zuckerberg. In 2005, when Facebook got ...and more »

Path, Google+ And Jack Dorsey At The 2011 Crunchies: Comebacks WinTechCrunchThe one I know best is Joseph Smarr, who I've covered over the years as he worked through his former employer, Plaxo, to build open standards for social sharing. Since moving to Google, he's been the mastermind behind private lists feature Circles and ...and more »

The Untold Story Of Two Early Facebook InvestorsForbesParker pitched Harinarayan on a start-up he was working on called Plaxo, a kind of social address book. Their ideas about virality and network effects were very similar and Harinarayan was hooked. He wanted to invest. Eventually Sequoia Capital ended ...and more »

Facebook IPO: five key figures set to make billionsTelegraph.co.ukVeteran Silicon Valley investor Parker has previously put money into Spotify, Napster and online address book Plaxo. And if 'The Social Network' is to be believed, he's also the man who got the name changed from 'thefacebook' to simply 'Facebook'.

Comcast reveals social TV strategy that rewards subscribers in patent applicationFierceCableThe inventors listed on the patent application currently work for Comcast's Silicon Valley Innovation Center, and include the founders of TunerFish, a social TV startup that Comcast picked up through its 2008 acquisition of Plaxo.and more »

Plaxo's Broken Services: Part DeuxInformationWeekAbout two weeks ago, I published an article here on BYTE on how Plaxo's services were broken. In summary, I cited these problems: Syncing through a VM doesn't work or takes hours to complete. Calendar syncing can't handle recurring appointment changes ...and more »

Need for Information Exchange and Social Support to Drive Popularity of Web ...San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Advertisements in the form of animated flash banners, flash animated intros, static advertisements, among others, are therefore gaining popularity on web portals such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Plaxo, LinkedIn, among others, and search engines such ...and more »

Dunk-proof phone and tablet debut at CESConsumerSearch Productopia (blog)According to 2011 Google survey, 39% of us take our phones into the bathroom with us; and a separate survey commissioned by Plaxo found that 19% of us have dropped them in the toilet. Enter the Fujitsu waterproof Android smartphone and tablet computer ...and more »