Plaxo today announced that they have just signed an agreement to be acquired by Comcast. Details of the price were not disclosed but it is rumored to be in the $140 - $175 million range.
The company blog says “Plaxo Pulse is to become central to creating a unified “Social Media” experience across the web and television”. Not sure what exactly that means for Comcast? Given that 75% of Plaxo’s users are business users. I am surprised that Plaxo was not acquired by Google or Cisco.
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In an announcement yesterday, Google, Facebook, and Plaxo joined the DataPortability.org Workgroup. The announcement stated that as key players in the social networking space, “their joint support of the DataPortability initiative presents a new opportunity for the next generation of software - particularly in the fields of social software, user rights and interoperability”. The DataPortability initiative is focused on creating end-to-end data portability for which it claims the technology already exists so that “as users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and More»

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Big storm this week in the blogosphere as Robert Scoble’s Facebook account was temporarily suspended for breaking the site’s terms of service. He was using a new tool from Plaxo Pulse that was extracting and matching Plaxo and Facebook users. As Robert said: “I wanted to get all my contacts into my Microsoft Outlook address book and hook them up with the Plaxo system, which 1,800 of my friends are already on.” Scoble was eventually reinstated but the debate about data portability now rages on (see also More»

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