Plaxo is now more social, less annoying

In my search to combine my web life, I try a lot of sites. Google Reader, iGoogle, Facebook, Jaiku, Pownce, Twitter, Flickr, and the infamous data-sharing site Plaxo. I decided to give Plaxo another try after Leo Laporte reported the continuous e-mailing that it used to do has stopped, and it works pretty good to sync my Mac's iCal and Address Book (please add support for syncing Tasks soon!) and that syncs with my Palm T|X just fine, plus I can update all my info on my Yahoo! Account. It also has plugins for most e-mail programs, including Outlook, OE, Thunderbird, Windows Mail (the Vista mail client), Linkedin, and mobile browsing at m.plaxo.com (which looks really good on Blazer and Opera Mini 4 Beta, and even my Wii!) and also a sync product on Alltel's Axcess network for $2.99 per month.

In addition to all these features, on August 6th, Plaxo added a new social networking twist called Pulse. They take all sorts of feeds, like your blog's RSS feed, Flickr, LiveJournal, Jaiku, Twitter, your Amazon Wish List, del.icio.us, Digg, YouTube, MySpace, and a ton more, and let you “connect” with other Plaxo users, and you can lock access to these feeds to other users, or make them public.

The best part of all of this is the mobile Plaxo site. If you cannot VPN into your network or sync OTA, you can at least update contact information and calendar data via m.plaxo.com, plus you can see several feeds, and it's not walled in, like Facebook.

I'm now using Plaxo as my homepage on Blazer, it's clean and convienent, keeps everything together, and in conjunction with mobile Jaiku and Facebook, I'm always connected.