Plaxo - SocialTimes http://socialtimes.com Your Social Media Source Copyright 2012 Mon, 28 May 2012 03:37:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 A Brief History Of Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning… and Their New Project “Who are the Seans?” one might ask. Well, they may not officially be ‘The Seans’ just yet, but if their most recent venture blows up, they may well achieve that single name, ‘Winkelvii’ type status (without the d-bag-y conotations). Individually, you just may have heard of them though. Sean Parker? You know – that guy played by the pop star in one of last year’s biggest movies, Founding President of Facebook; the one that seems to have the Midas Touch with any tech startup? That Sean. Then there’s Shawn Fanning (sorry buddy, the ‘Sean’ spelling is more popular). In creating Napster, he almost single-handedly changed (Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich would write that as ‘destroyed’) the music industry. Yeah, they’ve done stuff.

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]]> Richard Howard http://socialtimes.com/a-brief-history-of-sean-parker-and-shawn-fanning-and-their-new-project_b60327#disqus_thread http://socialtimes.com/a-brief-history-of-sean-parker-and-shawn-fanning-and-their-new-project_b60327 http://socialtimes.com/?p=60327 Tue, 03 May 2011 13:50:36 +0000 Comcast Starts Promoting Plaxo Services -Comcast Universal Address-This evening while watching the television I noticed an interesting advertisement show up: Comcast’s ad for their new “universal address book”. Immediately I thought that this must be part of the recent Plaxo acquisition. Sure enough after looking around I found the new Universal Address Book service site and it does indeed leverage Plaxo.

The goal is straight-forward: let everyone access their contacts and calendars from a central location. This is something that data portability is supposed to help accomplish. The one place where they can’t access all my contact information is from Facebook. I wrote about this issue earlier today. Facebook needs to open up their contact lists for this to work.

As I’ve been saying for a while now, the real battle for social networks is the race to our contact list. Unfortunately nobody has been able to accomplish this yet but Comcast is going to leverage Plaxo’s services, with the help of Joseph Smarr of course, to try to offer this service. Unfortunately Comcast couldn’t get the service to work for me.

Apparently I was one of the users being affected by some sort of email outage that I was unaware of. In the middle of my chat with a Comcast support person, the chat application crashed and my conversation was ended. Thankfully I was able to at least figure out a way to embed the following promotion presentation that was included on their site. We’ll see how long this stays live!

Once Comcast can resolve my email issues I will hopefully be able to try out a more thorough demo. It’s interesting to see how quickly Comcast has integrated Plaxo’s services into their own. I wonder how soon we can see these services directly integrated into our televisions rather than having to use the net to take advantage of this.

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]]> Nick O'Neill http://socialtimes.com/comcast-starts-promoting-plaxo-services_b820#disqus_thread http://socialtimes.com/comcast-starts-promoting-plaxo-services_b820 http://www.socialtimes.com/?p=820 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:05:12 +0000