I used to work with a guy named Haiping, a former developer at Microsoft who was hired just two people before me at Plaxo. He has some crazy C++ skills as well as is pretty damn good at that headshot thing in PC first person shooters. Last time I was in South Bay, I stopped [...]
Mischa mentioned that a bunch of Web 2.0 companies wanted to get in on the whole SuperBowl ad thing. Being Web 2.0 and not Web 1.0, they put their commercials on YouTube. Here is one from “the bunch of monkeys” I used to work for:
Their budget? $50 for the bar tab. Sure beats wasting 2 [...]
I received an e-mail Yesterday from Plaxo:
This was a fun project that allows you to tell this year’s fortune for your friends. When you combine it with the new holiday borders you’ll have a pretty cool card!
It’s completely free so try it out.
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A couple days ago, Hong sent me an eCard announcing that Plaxo had the new holiday borders live on the Plaxo eCard site.
Actually, he used my favorite new border, “snowflake”. Tiffany, Michael, and Martin did the design based on a template that Bill had suggested to me for the flowers border that he did.
(Okay, I [...]
Joseph sent me this article, in which the writer switches from Windows to a new MacBook Pro (the same one I own).
In doing so, he found the easiest way to import his Outlook contacts into Mac OS X Address Book was just by using Plaxo! While he was being tongue-in-cheek, I noticed Derik DeLong uses [...]
Drew showed me this nice trick to zero out a Plaxo account (something I need to do a lot because of testing).
Simply go to Manage Folders, Create a new Contacts folder, and then delete the old one.
Warning: I don’t know what happens when you sync down to your desktop client. My solution is to run [...]
Joseph sent around this chart of Yahoo’s updated browser support chart.
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Joseph passed me this article about Redgee’s handling of an interesting customer support issue.
[My service recovery experience and thoughts about products and services after the jump.]
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When Drew finished the Mac client for release, I sent an “update request” to all my address book trying to get them to join Plaxo.
The Update Request has them update information in my Address Book, instead of asking them to become a member where the information is updated automatically and they get synchronization between their [...]
I got my first(?) Caltech Alumni spam today which led me to this page which led me to this page.
The cool thing about LinkedIn Groups feature (finding this is an interesting case of buried UI) is that this stuff seems to be officially/unofficially sponsored by the groups hosted by LinkedIn. This means I get a [...]
