{"id":1743,"date":"2006-08-14T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/08\/14\/aim_and_plaxo.html"},"modified":"2006-08-14T22:38:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T22:38:44","slug":"aim_and_plaxo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/08\/14\/aim_and_plaxo.html","title":{"rendered":"AIM and Plaxo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just installed AIM for the first time in a bazillion years having used nothing but Adium and Trillian for forever.  And what did i find?  Apparently, Plaxo has teamed up with AIM for this Universal Address Book.  My first reaction was to panic &#8211; i want nothing to do with the evil spamming service that has been the bane of my existence since it started.  For years, i&#8217;ve gone out of my way to provide fake data every time someone sends me a Plaxo invite in an attempt to ward off stalkers and folks who want to connect the dots.  As i&#8217;ve said before, i want nothing to do with Plaxo (see [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/04\/08\/opting_out_of_plaxo.html\">1<\/a>][<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/03\/plaxo_and_spam.html\">2<\/a>]).  And then i started breathing and tried to remind myself that companies change, maybe it&#8217;s not so bad anymore.  To catch my breath, i logged into Bloglines to surf for a few moments before continuing with the signup process.  What did i find?  Micki&#8217;s essay on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mickipedia.com\/?p=501\">Plaxo is holding her data hostage.<\/a>  Back to panic mode.<\/p>\n<p>Why why why can&#8217;t Plaxo go away?  I don&#8217;t want it to connect the dots between who i AIM and who i email and who has me in their addressbook.  I don&#8217;t want a universal addressbook controlled by some external organization that i don&#8217;t trust that spams my friends and keeps data hostage.  I don&#8217;t like the lack of transparency and the massive amounts of data that they have.  I do not trust them, Sam I am.<\/p>\n<p>Gah.  And i can&#8217;t figure out how to finish installing AIM without making a Plaxo account.  ::wimper::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just installed AIM for the first time in a bazillion years having used nothing but Adium and Trillian for forever. And what did i find? Apparently, Plaxo has teamed up with AIM for this Universal Address Book. My first reaction was to panic &#8211; i want nothing to do with the evil spamming service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-plaxo-spam-aim-addressbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}