Comments on: AIM and Plaxo

By: zephoria

zephoria — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:46:26 +0000

Street gossip seems to suggest that AIM will be disconnecting from Plaxo. Can anyone confirm?

By: caogirl

caogirl — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:23:23 +0000

suggestion:

download an old version of AIM from http://www.oldversion.com

By: zephoria

zephoria — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:57:52 +0000

Yeah – there’s something broken. It says ((null)) all over the place in my buddylist. I can click on the nulls and send messages to random people but it’s not very useful for knowing who’s online and who i should contact….

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:08:56 +0000

Danah, just curious – is there a reason why Trillian is not getting the job done?

By: zephoria

zephoria — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:17:55 +0000

Mark – i’m glad y’all are working to improve your PR but Plaxo has done nothing to provide people with proper data security, to fully opt-out when their friends opt them in, or to provide complete transparency about what you’re doing with data. When you have TOSes that can change at any moment, there’s no security. When you lock people out of their data, there’s no security. The whole ethos of your company has been slimy since the beginning and with all of the data security nightmares going on out there right now, i don’t have a lot of confidence in what you’re doing.

You also have to understand that your company *has* engaged me in the past. Or, rather, Sean Parker did a nice job of calling me up to yell at me for over an hour when i wrote something negative about Plaxo on my blog two years ago.

How can you convince me to give you a fifth chance? Why should i trust you? Convince me with something more than you’re listening. Because from my perspective, the apologies seem like PR moves not actual attitude changes.

danah

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:51:26 +0000

I love GAIM.
Mostly because my friends use Jabber/Google Talk and I didn’t want to pay $25 for Trillian Pro.

Anyways, I think I’m on Plaxo because I signed up when I installed Triton a while back. But I’ve since changed emails. So I’m not bothered by it, if they actually do still spam.

By: Edwin Aoki

Edwin Aoki — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:28:59 +0000

As Mark mentions earlier, Plaxo activation isn’t a requirement for installing, or using AIM. It’s there for people who want to connect their AIM buddies with their address book, as well as for people who like the Outlook integration.

If you’re one of those folks that likes to use AIM for professional purposes, you might also consider AIM Pro, available at http://aimpro.premiumservices.aol.com/.

By: Bertil

Bertil — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:54:27 +0000

Well: I am happy to have my IM, e-mail and contacts connected–so that I can switch to conversation when someone is reading & answering my message. But Plaxo is clearly the last company I would give these details to. . .

Have you tried netvibes.com ? Last time I tried they had this Meebo page that is quite convenient.

And Plaxo are answering on an elite blog–not every blogger appears on “National TV”

By: Mark Jen

Mark Jen — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:13:38 +0000

I’m all about blogs! Well… at least after my incident anyways

BTW, maybe you gals can make it out to a Lunch 2.0 sometime! I’d love to meet face to face and chat about the social networking/web 2.0 space.

By: Mickipedia

Mickipedia — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:03:36 +0000

It’s nice to see Plaxo responding to blogs. Mark reached out to me as well. At least one person over there gets it.