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Plaxo Moves to Support Google Friend Connect

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:51 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Celebrities have been diving into social networking in a big way recently, and with each launch it’s fairly obvious how much each one gets it.
These 15 celebrity-inspired social networks are examples of some of the good, the bad, and the ugly, with the celebrity involvement ranging from figurehead to hands-on social networking guru. […]

Source:Mashable!
Plaxo, which is now under the Comcast umbrella, now supports Google’s Friend Connect. With Plaxo’s integration, you’re able to see which of your Plaxo contacts are also on sites that support Friend Connect, and invite Plaxo friends to join the site as well. There’s Plaxo Pulse integration too, so any activity that occurs […]

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Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:52:34 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Glubble is a developer of a parental control plugin for Firefox, which aids adults in the ability to watch over their kids internet usage.
In their approach is something similar to the Kidzui method, where they create a whitelist of kid-friendly sites. Instead of working on generating the list themselves, the sites on the whitelist are […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Glubble Filters a $3 Million Series A”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/16/glubble/” });

Source:Mashable!
It seems the rumors reported earlier today by TechCrunch were spot on, and Wired is the proud new owner of Ars Technica. In a call to Alexandra Constantinople, Executive Director of Communications for Wired, she confirmed that, “the story is accurate, but (Wired) won’t be issuing an official statement until next week.”
This is sure […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/16/confirmed-wired-buying-ars-technica/” });

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Plaxo’s John McCrea Sheds Some Light on the Comcast Deal

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:31:44 +0000

Source:Mashable!
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Who’s ready for a crazy night?! Join […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “MashBash NYC Tomorrow - Last Minute Tickets Added”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/15/mashbash-nyc-tomorrow-last-minute-tickets-added/” });

Source:Mashable!
I had a chance to talk to John McCrea today regarding the acquisition of his company by Comcast, and while a lot of the raw information is probably found elsewhere or in other analysis, the way he laid it all out to me showed me exactly how much sense the joining of these two organizations […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Plaxo’s John McCrea Sheds Some Light on the Comcast Deal”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/15/plaxo-john-mccrea-comcast/” });

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Gillmor Gang Digests Comcast/Plaxo Deal

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:33:35 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
The Kindle, Amazon’s ugly but useful ebook reader that launched in November 2007, may be a burgeoning hit, says Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney. Citi expects Amazon to generate between $400 million and $750 million in revenue from the Kindle by 2010, or 1% - 3% of Amazon’s total revenue.
The key points of differentiation with the […]Source:TechCrunch
A subset of the Gillmor Gang met via telephone this afternoon to debate the $150 - $170 million Comcast acquisition of Plaxo. Listen to Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and me talk about whether this was a smart move for Comcast, or a sucker’s purchase of a company no one in Silicon […]

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Confirmed: Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
The rumors were accurate: Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the rumored purchase price is in the $175 million range. Plaxo, which was founded in 2002, has raised just under $30 million in venture capital.
Plaxo has been the subject of considerable acquisition […]

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Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday

Sat, 10 May 2008 08:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.
MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, a […]

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Signing Off, And What Does A TechCrunch Writer Actually Use?

Tue, 06 May 2008 04:31:52 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg loves to hire folks from Google. The latest is Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs. He will join Facebook on May 14 under the same role. Zuckerberg’s letter to the troops leaked to us:
Hey Everyone –
I’m writing from India to share with you the good […]Source:TechCrunch
This is my last post at TechCrunch as a full time writer (I may yet do the occasional guest post). It’s exactly 12 months to the day since I started writing here and the date seemed like a good time to go. I won’t bore you with a self indulgent retrospective; if you are interested […]

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Soocial Makes Plaxo Look Lame (Beta Invites)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:32:14 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Update: Don’t panic everybody, IMAP support is back…hopefully to stay.
It appears that Google has pulled support for IMAP, although it’s unclear whether this is a temporary decision, the result of a bug, or a permanent change of policy. Google first rolled out support for IMAP in October.
We’ve contacted Google to determine the cause of this […]Source:TechCrunch
Okay, making Plaxo look lame isn’t that hard. But as Plaxo has been groping around the past year trying to turn itself into a social network to attract a buyer (cough, Comcast), a little startup in the Netherlands called Soocial has been building a kick-ass contact management service that syncs all of your contacts […]

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Plaxo Pulls The Social Network Into Mac Mail

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:05 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
The big news this morning is that open source database startup MySQL finally found a year’s worth of rumors that they were mulling over an initial public offering. Sun Microsystems has acquired them instead, for $1 billion. MySQL had raised a total of $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz […]Source:Techcrunch
At some point last year people started to realize that the email inbox was not only the “original” Internet social network, it’s also going to be the backbone of social networking going forward. You already have your friends (people in your address book), and the social graph is already filled (people you email, and who […]

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Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:30:07 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
We know Plaxo is for sale, presumably looking for north of $100 million and telling people around Silicon Valley that they’ve had an offer for north of $200 million. Revolution Partners, an investment bank, has been pitching them to all the big potential buyers.
There are now more rumors about the acquisition; specifically that Facebook is […]

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