There’s an interesting little article at News.Com about Plaxo’s new business model — now they’re going to charge people I only slightly know for the privilege of spamming me to see if my contact information has changed. Yippeee!
Oh, and they made it infinitesimally more difficult for its morons users to spam me,
The service also tries to limit e-mails requesting information as much as possible. People have to manually click a box for each contact before the service will send out an e-mail requesting new information.
Oh, yeah, way to go, I guess I’ll stop filtering all Plaxo e-mails into the Trash right away. Not.
I was actually surprised at the number of people who I barely knew a) had me in their contact info. and b) actually thought it was a good idea to use Plaxo. In most cases, it reminded me of why we talked so little that they had no idea if I had moved or gotten a new phone number.
Source:
Start-up Plaxo sketches out business plan. News.Com, May 23, 2004.