Wow - not a sight you see every day on the web. A CEO apologizes to the websphere (take a look at the flying pigs!)here: http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2006/03/an_apology.html . The thought is appreciated, especially that he regignizes that Plaxo has issues.

For those not using Plaxo, it's a web-based tool that enables users to sync their contact information with specific users to when your or their contact info changes you get the automatic update that saves you a lot of time hunting down people.

He has gotten 4 main comments from the blogsphere:
A) "You should have done this a lot sooner"
B) "You clearly knew that what you were doing was wrong"
C) "You're evil, horrible people who should be banished to Hades"
D) "You should apologize"

Here are my thoughts on these:
A) Yes, if Plaxo would have moved faster to prevent "acquaintance spam", since spam is such a problem
B) I guess they knew but re-engeering the process is difficult and email is still the electronic medium of choice. On the flipside, it's legitimate email Vs notes trying to enlarge your body parts.
C) Please get off you loosers. If you don't want to get Plaxo mail, just filter the "plaxo.com" address and you're done. If you are in a business role and need to keep in touch with people, and you don't like Plaxo, you're living in the stone age and should crawl from under your rock to see what the sun is like. And the world is not flat either.
D) I guess so, and in doing so, Plaxo promised to better it's service, so we all win.

In a nutshell, I like Plaxo, it saves me A LOT of time, and I'm happy to get notes from Plaxo. I really don't get too many and have close to 2000 contacts on this system.

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