RSSMozilla Gains Support from Plaxo
By Ed Oswald | Published July 26, 2005, 11:10 AM
Plaxo announced Tuesday that it will extend support to Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client by offering a beta version of its toolbar for synchronizing address books. The toolbar is part of an initiative by the California-based company to expand its service across more platforms.
Thunderbird is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and is used by millions worldwide. The addition of Plaxo compatibility could help the e-mail client gain greater acceptance in enterprise environments, where the plug-in counts most of its users.
"The Thunderbird client provides Plaxo members with yet another option to have consistent and up-to-date information across multiple locations and accounts, as well as able to access their contact information from their preferred platform and on their favored email client," Plaxo founder Todd Masonis said.
Plaxo counts users in over 83 countries, as well as users within 98 of the Fortune 100 companies. Those who sign up for the service are able to have their address books automatically update with new contact information from other Plaxo users that are in their address book.
The service additionally allows the user to access its Outlook calendar, tasks and notes from anywhere with a Internet connection. Users can also import contact data from Netscape, Palm, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail accounts.
The client is available for download starting today from the Plaxo Web site. The toolbar, as well as basic service, will be free. The company offers premium services, such as mobile access, customer support and address book optimization for $29.95 USD per year.
This is great news. Finall I can sync my address book between my work PC running Outlook and my Apple at home running Thunderbird. Fantastic.
On a side note, I should add that Plaxo's privacy statement is one of the best in the business, and they are very keen to educate their users about not spamming their contacts. Plaxo is a very useful tool if used responsibly, and I think it is unresonable to suggest that they are anything like as bad as Gator etc. This tool is not spyware!
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|Plaxo is a very useful tool and it good to see it has also taken notice of the increasing share of users having opted for OSS tools such as Thunderbird.
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|when you aassociate your product with mozilla/firefox, you will get free advertising..
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|Plaxo has always given me the creeps. I feel badly for my friends who get suckered into sending out "Plaxo Spam."
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|And Plaxo is.........?
Never even heard of it. They must be huge. :)
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|Finally!
I was waiting for this since TB 1.0 launched!
Now I can sync back my address books.
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|An insidious evil spyware system that creates a swarm of email spam asking everyone that is on a contact list of a plaxo user to "join plaxo"
Google plaxo and learn.....
BTW Betanews shilling for these companies is getting REALLY old.. this company ranks up there with Gator/Claria as far as Legit/Useful.. posting this sort of news here.. makes no sense..
Noone uses plaxo on purpose.. just like noone intentionally installs claria/gator nonsense.. and those that DO add plaxo are routinely blacklisted/ignored by the rest of the world for the constant spamming.
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