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February 2, 2007 A Level Playing Field Online for Super Bowl Ads “...according to John McCrea, VP of marketing for Plaxo. Our head of customer support has a good eye for cinematography and editing," he said. "The streaking is a special talent we found in our product management team."” Full article… |
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February 1, 2007 Super Bowl Marketers Plan End Run “In a savvy move, a group of internet startups have turned their backs on the Super Bowl completely and created their own miniature advertising extravaganza on the web...” Full article… |
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November 2006 The Baby Billionaires of Silicon Valley “The Internet's new boom kids are poised to take over the world — if they don't crash first” Full article… |
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October 31, 2006 Verizon to offer automatic phone contact updates “The service takes computer-based contact lists from commonly used e-mail systems, such as those of Microsoft or Yahoo, and sends the contact details wirelessly to the customer's cellphone” Full article… |
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October 31, 2006 Verizon makes phone contact updates automatic “The service is designed to give subscribers access to a self-updating address book on their mobile phones, which will synchronize their contact information with other communication tools, such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, AIM, Yahoo! Mail, the Mac OS X Address Book and Thunderbird.” Full article… |
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October 31, 2006 Verizon Offers Wireless Synching of Phone/PC Contact Lists “The Plaxo service is meant to eliminate the hassle and time spent punching in contact information, such as names, telephone numbers and addresses, into mobile phones.” Full article… |
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October 31, 2006 Verizon to Offer OTA Contact Sync “A service from Plaxo that allows its wireless customers to automagically sync up their contacts between their computers and mobile devices, over the air” Full article… |
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October 15, 2006 Gags-to-riches tale of the Welsh wizard who bet on YouTube “That will not stop people poring over the list of Sequoia's investments — future hopes include… Plaxo, which automatically updates web-based contact lists — in the hope of spotting the next Google or YouTube” Full article… |
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October 3, 2006 Plaxo tops 15 million users “Forget Facebook and social networking. For a real example of networking, check out www.plaxo.com, the place where you enter your contact list and keep current on what everyone is doing and where they're located.” Full article… |
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September 26, 2006 Jajah’s Mobile ambitions “The company is in discussions to embed its calling technology into social-networking sites and portals. The first batch of announcements will come in October, Scharf says. These sites—online address book provider Plaxo is the only one announced one so far—will have a major monetary incentive to partner with Jajah: The startup has 30% margins, and can offer participating sites some $10 to $20 per user per year in revenue sharing, he says.” Full article… |
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August 22, 2006 Argentinians have full address books “According to the survey of anonymous, aggregated data from more than 10 million Plaxo members worldwide, Argentina led Plaxo's Connected Index with an average of 479 contacts per address book.” Full article… |
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August 7, 2006 AOL Drives Plaxo Growth “Plaxo, an online address book that allows users to keep their contacts up-to-date, has been growing rapidly since it signed a partnership with AOL last July. The Web-based service provider hit the 10 million member mark in March and has been adding an additional 1 million members per month since.” Full article… |
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June 21, 2006 Supernova: Navigating the personal infosphere “Plaxo tries the solve one aspect of the overload problem by creating a smart address book and providing data synching across all devices. If information changes in a person’s network, and that person also uses Plaxo, the address book is dynamically updated.” Full article… |
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May 24, 2006 Plaxo integrates low-cost VoIP service from Jajah “Called Plaxo Click to Call and available now, the new feature will let users click on any phone number stored in their Plaxo online address book to initiate a phone call, according to company officials.” Full article… |
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May 23, 2006 Plaxo gets hip to VoIP “The move marks Plaxo's first foray into allowing its customers to actually communicate by phone with the people they have listed in the contact management service Plaxo provides. A partnership Plaxo has with AOL lets AIM users initiate chats through the Plaxo address book.” Full article… |
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