The Woodwork

Now that Pulse is officially out, I decided to “spam” my Plaxo members. I don’t know if it’s really spam since these are only the people already on Plaxo and I had to add them each individually (I wish there was a bulk function.)

[About Plaxo and Lunch 2.0 after the jump] (more…)

Wow, it’s my birthday already. Happy Birthday…to me!
And few things make me happier than when I see my own Plaxo e-cards sent to me on my birthday. Some of you can guess why…
Here is a selection of some of them.
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I’m trying to sync my Yelp with the internets:

Argh! I have no friends
Yo! Yelp, Here’s a hint. That goes for the rest of you guys also who can’t figure out address book import. It’s scary how easy this stuff is when you let someone else do the work for you.

Plaxo Labs search is working. Notice that I used the Plaxo search plugin which I installed in Firefox.
(Yes, apparently I need to use the deduper.)
Another surprising feature is a birthday view that was added to contacts:

Too bad I can’t sort by upcoming birthdays. But notice that alert? Something about requesting birthdays from your contacts?

Score! [...]

There was a write-up about Tagged yesterday on TechCrunch.
We’re profitable! *Pats self on back*
The most interesting part is the comments. My reply hasn’t changed in the last six days:
You cannot single out one Web 2.0 company for doing viral marketing and not be a complete hypocrite. Either bash them all or none.
[More musings after [...]

Disclaimer: I worked as an engineer at Plaxo a long time ago (in internet years… in human years it was five months ago).
In October of last year, an engineering colleague asked me about this whole “Plaxo is evil. Plaxo is spam” thing. At the time I went in to a long boring lecture about Plaxo [...]

Yeah, it took like 1 year to load up…literally, Joseph, didn’t you write this like a year ago? Yes, I know it has no value, except to show me at a glance how outdated my contacts are.
But I love it!
(Generate your own.)
Now if you only get that search plugin working and on this page, and [...]

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Nikon D70, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G
f/4 at 1/25 second, iso 500, 12mm (18mm)

Summer is here and Lunch 2.0 is starting up again. There are two events scheduled already, and from two of my favorite Web 2.0 startups to boot!
The first one will be at LinkedIn. Which is important because their founder [...]

Speaking of Plaxo and LinkedIn, it looks like some people at my former company actually listened to the moral of the Underpants Gnomes talk and launched Plaxo-LinkedIn integration as a premium feature (as well as a Labs section).
I tried it out and the first screen I got was a rejection because Safari isn’t supported. This [...]

“2 Drink Minimum” by 500hatsYou’ll have to read until the end to find out why I included this photo.

Holly wrote recently that your most passionate users don’t necessarily build the best products. It’s really worth a read.
I think the problem comes from the fact that there is often a large difference between what people say [...]