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I haven't checked on this yet, but once Plaxo's synced all my data, can I then pull the conical data back out of Plaxo to my other apps? For example, I lost a lot of Address Book data due to an OS X drive failure and now Google has got most of my contact info. The way Google handles contact sucks, however, and so it's not a straight export back out to Address Book. Would love to be able to do so from something a bit more robust like Plaxo, if possible.
Also need to check how easy it is to EXPORT data out of Plaxo, once you're tied into it. While privacy policies are nice, getting everything out and in a format that works is a necessity.
As to Thunderbird support. They say that'll come.
I'll have to give this a try. Hopefully the performance woes you speak of (and general syncing problems) don't cause a lot of grief. The LinkedIn syncing is definitely cool. I have to say, I'm surprised by the number of LinkedIn messages I've been getting of late from folks.
We are in a perfect case here where a local rich client is preferred, instead of an online application. Here is why :
I watched the demo, and after the guy repeated 10 times the same thing and finally managed to click on one of the sync plugins, that's when he explained that in order for this thing to work, you have to provide user and password. Yes!!!! you are giving your credentials to a third-party!!!!!!!
That's really when you have to laugh your ass off.
How is that any different that what Facebook is asking too? If I recall correctly, you have to 'login' to the applications that you add on Facebook as well.
I agree, that's stupid, we need a common secure ID across all these systems.
Facebook does provice me over Linkedin with information much richer - and while "but it is business only" is so last century, the new way facebook allows me to combine both is great. And with additional f8 there is a lot to do with facebook.
But, in the end, when I am online, it does not matter where i get the information. It is relevant when I am offline, and in more cases than not I do not have mobile access because I am not willing to pay international roaming fees for data, especially when I am in the US.
Xing allows me to download all of my contacts into outlook. It is no synchronize, but you can manage and you have the relevant information downloaded on your mobile device.
I am not the only one having asked for a synchro with outlook (after all, not even other systems), but Xing does prefer to "improve" their mobile client. Which, if you see my comment above, is totally beside the point.
It is about integration and synchronisation if online of offline. The times when work was work and you left your private stuff on your home computer is gone. Everyone of us has 2+ devices they want to synchronize and for god's sake, it is 2007.
The standards are there and it still is not working with major clients properly.
If facebook and plaxo can open up the competition, so be it. But I still believe it needs a third party developper like plaxo to do it right, just like back then with intellisync.
But in the long run I agree with Jeremiah - I do not want to tell (as I do at the moment in 3 new systems) everybody over and over again that you are my contact. We've done this a thousand times now.
Can those developppers please wake up?
Silo is yesterday. Try it and you will fail.
I can see a lot of good things happening with Plaxo. It does support the major PIMs out there but as you said, its a bit buggy. I don't think it was synching the tasks well in Outlook 2007 running under XP SP2. Those email that are flagged as tasks that is.
I would like to see a Palm desktop connector as well. As well as Novell and the other clients. Time will tell.
I did want it to de-dupe all the contacts I have on various mail services. That's what I've always found Plaxo best for.
Used your email and the contact details loaded up fine. I synched my google account and it states things are "happening in the background." Strangely enough I have been syncing Outlook with Plaxo for quite some time and only today noticed a different number of contacts within each - off by about 20 total. I hope this gets resolved.
Today's slowness is attributed to the launch, but if the speed doesnt pickup I can see this being an issue for many.
The idea of a google\outlook\yahoo\web sync. has been such a large topic of convo. I will not be surprised when this whole story gets picked up as a much bigger deal this week.
It duplicates too many contacts that you have to de-dupe. For example - If you didn't join with your business address and you dont have thier personal address in your contacts. It seems to create a new record. Out of 900 contacts - I always have 100+ to de-dupe after syncing with LinkedIn
I doubt the block will be removed
While this reinvention might be good, the plaxo past might let it down for I still wont update contacts in other peoples address books where my information and theres still might be sold to spammers.
The capability looks very exciting but its not working.
No MS Entourage support either, so I am now batting 0-for-2 in my attempt to import some data so I can try out the new Plaxo. I suppose I get what I deserve for being a fan of non-standard mail clients, but you'd think they'd at least offer some sort of generic .CSV import option.
:-(
I always admire your work.
I also am trying Plaxo 3.0 out.
Could add your hotmail account easily.
Sometimes it seems buggy, but it works properly most of the time.
Thanks for introducing a cool stuff like this!
Of course, Microsoft hasn't done any of those things yet, so no problem, Plaxo's hale and hearty today, but the fact is that Microsoft could always do a better job of this...
P.S. If someone figured out how to delete Plaxo account, let me know here.
Added you, worked fine, near instantaneous.
Found other contacts located on Plaxo, and sent out an update. I was able to work with Pulse, it's straightforward enough.
Plaxo has display problems in Firefox on the Mac. It might just be Firefox though. Someone else should check that.
Thanks for sharing.
1) It does not allow me to move my contacts from one folder to another. I have to download all the contacts into Outlook in order to move contacts among folders. It makes the use of folders useless.
2) It does not recognize duplicates that are located in different folders. So I have about 1000 contacts of which about 50% are duplicates that I cannot dedupe because they are in different folders.
3) I linked Plaxo to my Yahoo and now I have triplicates of all my contacts because Plaxo created a separate folder for my Yahoo contacts.
I do not dare try the Beta 3.0 because I may end up with four versions of my contacts, with new and obsolete information that I would have to sort out manually. I am almost horrified by what 3.0 might bring, because I have not been able to get the company to fix version 2.0.
Outlook is my main calendar but I like to have access to it in Google or Yahoo (or Plaxo).
However, I tend to set up generic repeating appointments, and then edit each one to record actual start/end times. When I edited an appointment in Plaxo, it changed EVERY occurence !
I have deleted my calendar from Plaxo and will re-sync it from Outlook.
(I just hope it does NOT go the other way !)
Ross
http://www.rossgoodman.com
- I added your email address to Plaxo 3.0 and received your complete sync info.
- I used my Plaxo 2.0 Outlook toolbar to sync with online Plaxo 3.0 and only received your email address (which also shows as the name field) in Outlook.
- 1) I upgraded my Outlook Plaxo toolbar to 3.x; 2) sync'd from the Outlook Plaxo toolbar with Web Plaxo 3.0; 3) Your complete contact info appeared in Outlook Contacts.
BL: Sync'ing between desktop OL and Web Plaxo 3.0 means that OL Plaxo toolbar also must be v. 3.0.
As you mention, Facebook integration and mobile syncing (in the UK - the US already have it I believe) would be superb.
I don't know what's worse. This many JavaScript widgets or flashturbation on EVERY MOVIE SITE EVER?
I'm putting this site on my hosts file. Awful.
I don't know what's worse. This many JavaScript widgets or flashturbation on EVERY MOVIE SITE EVER?
I'm putting this site on my hosts file. Awful.