More Hype For Plaxo
from the lazy-PR dept
You can always tell when a lazy PR person has been given the job to hype up some random startup in Silicon Valley. That's when the "profile" piece comes out, focusing almost entirely on the 22-year-old founder of a company, rather than the company itself or what it does. It looks like that's the latest strategy to hype up Plaxo, with a story that focuses on its young co-founders and the similarities the company has to Yahoo and Google - namely founded by two Stanford students and funded by Michael Moritz. Of course, the article leaves out the differences - such as the fact that a fair number of folks find Plaxo's service both annoying and creepy - and they're still searching for a business model. It also leaves out the fact that one of Plaxo's founders was recently forced out of the company, suggesting that not all is well at Plaxo central. I still fail to see how Plaxo is any more than a small feature of an email system - and the only thing I learned from this article is that the company likes to compare itself to multi-billion dollar companies that actually do have business models.
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its great for me
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As for "spamming you" that is the most absurd thing ever. Plaxo does not spam. I choose contacts that I don't have info for and plaxo sends a mail out for me. Its not spam if I CHOOSE to have my mail client send you a mail.
PS. this is from their privacy policy:
Plaxo will not sell, exchange, or otherwise share Your Information with third parties, unless required by law or in accordance with your instructions.
Plaxo does not send spam, maintain spam mailing lists, or support the activities of spammers.
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google didn't have a business model
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