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April 1, 2009

Being Social: Speaking of blueKiwi 09 - it goes mobile

I blogged a link to Jon Husband's blogpost on blueKiwi 09 and his impressions. Seems the bK guys are stirring up the dust, and doing some cool things. Latest: They're going mobile :)

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March 31, 2009

Being Social: A blogpost on blueKiwi 09 by Jon Husband

Excellent article. If you're interested in social business tools, this is a great read :) The Sociology Of Productivity Is A Core Design Principle

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March 4, 2009

Social Software: Plaxo is out of my life

I finally did it. Kicked Plaxo to the curb.

  • I've experienced some times now, that the contact data I update manually on contacts, gets overwritten by Plaxo data.
  • I've experienced some times now, that contacts I've created on my Mac, which were not in Plaxo, are suddenly gone.
I'm not 100% sure the fault is with Plaxo - but then again, Plaxo is the ONLY automated contact/calendar solution I'm running, so I feel pretty confident that it's the problem. Right, so Plaxo is a good concept in theory. In real life:
  • You depend on other people to put in the right data. If they don't update, your address book is suddenly out of date. A lot of people don't update their info.
  • You cannot expect other people to write e.g. +45 in front of a phone number, even if you yourself do that to prevent stupid mistakes when calling from another country than your own. As a result, you'll get phonenumbers without countrycodes.
  • IF (and I say if, because I'm not 100% certain yet) you update contact data yourself, it'll be overwritten by Plaxo-held contact data.
  • IF (and again, see the above point) you put in contacts - you risk them suddenly not being there, cause they weren't in Plaxo.
At least that's what I've experienced. I'll get back to the subject when having run without Plaxo for a while. But for now, it's WAY out.

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