Comments on: Note to Plaxo - hey, quit it! http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/ Reviews and opinions about consumer technology, gadgets, Websites, new media, services, and more. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:56:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rob http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-229961 Rob Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:21:44 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-229961 I'm so dismayed with Plaxo just now. I feel like they have crapped up a really good product and given into greed. I know their flaks are trying spin this thing down, but the impact continues. My connections get to know what I'm doing with my contact list and they also get to know what my other connections are doing. This is just shocking to me...I have deleted all my connections and feel much better now I’m so dismayed with Plaxo just now. I feel like they have crapped up a really good product and given into greed.

I know their flaks are trying spin this thing down, but the impact continues. My connections get to know what I’m doing with my contact list and they also get to know what my other connections are doing.

This is just shocking to me…I have deleted all my connections and feel much better now

]]> By: John McCrea http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184519 John McCrea Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:00:38 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184519 I should probably add that I really appreciate hearing your reactions. Pulse is only a few weeks old, and like any social application, we can't always guess how people will react to its particular mix of features. My goal is to make sure we listen well, and communicate clearly. Feel free to drop me a line any time. I'm john at plaxo dot com. (I head up marketing and am very involved in our push to open up the social web.) I should probably add that I really appreciate hearing your reactions. Pulse is only a few weeks old, and like any social application, we can’t always guess how people will react to its particular mix of features. My goal is to make sure we listen well, and communicate clearly. Feel free to drop me a line any time. I’m john at plaxo dot com. (I head up marketing and am very involved in our push to open up the social web.)

]]> By: John McCrea http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184516 John McCrea Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:47:26 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184516 Hey, Jeremy. Happy to clear up confusion. At this point you may not have chosen to share via Pulse. However, you've probably as a Plaxo member received e-mails from time-to-time letting you know about contact info changes that happened. The e-mail you just received is a new version of those e-mails, presenting changes in the form of a weekly digest. The hope is to cut down on the number of e-mails users receive by combining into a single weekly digest. (If you hadn't been receiving such one-off e-mails before, then it would have been a bug that caused you to start getting this type of e-mail.) As to the particular design, it is intended to give you a sense of the various updates that are awaiting in Pulse, in case you are interested. If you are not interested, you can either ignore it (or opt-out of such weekly digests in the future.) Hey, Jeremy. Happy to clear up confusion.

At this point you may not have chosen to share via Pulse. However, you’ve probably as a Plaxo member received e-mails from time-to-time letting you know about contact info changes that happened. The e-mail you just received is a new version of those e-mails, presenting changes in the form of a weekly digest. The hope is to cut down on the number of e-mails users receive by combining into a single weekly digest. (If you hadn’t been receiving such one-off e-mails before, then it would have been a bug that caused you to start getting this type of e-mail.)

As to the particular design, it is intended to give you a sense of the various updates that are awaiting in Pulse, in case you are interested. If you are not interested, you can either ignore it (or opt-out of such weekly digests in the future.)

]]> By: Jeremy Toeman http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184515 Jeremy Toeman Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:31:06 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184515 John, thanks for the reply. Can you tell me when exactly *I* chose to share via Pulse and when I subscribed to an email with updates from my network? Also, why aren't the updates in the email active links so I can just go straight to the items I want? That would be a lot more useful to me as a user. Again - I am thrilled you responded - I have been a long-time Plaxo fan, and really want to see you doing "good"! John, thanks for the reply. Can you tell me when exactly *I* chose to share via Pulse and when I subscribed to an email with updates from my network?

Also, why aren’t the updates in the email active links so I can just go straight to the items I want? That would be a lot more useful to me as a user.

Again - I am thrilled you responded - I have been a long-time Plaxo fan, and really want to see you doing “good”!

]]> By: John McCrea http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184501 John McCrea Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:03:52 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/09/19/note-to-plaxo-hey-quit-it/#comment-184501 I can't speak about each and every one of the folks on that list, but I am connected to most of them in Pulse. I am receiving the content they have chosen to share via Pulse. And, while we enable granular control of sharing (family, friends, business network), several of the folks on your list have chosen "public" as their sharing setting, which allows us to deliver their content to other Plaxo members who have them in their address book. Pulse is a very young service, so we're fine-tuning the various features. We appreciate your feedback. I can’t speak about each and every one of the folks on that list, but I am connected to most of them in Pulse. I am receiving the content they have chosen to share via Pulse. And, while we enable granular control of sharing (family, friends, business network), several of the folks on your list have chosen “public” as their sharing setting, which allows us to deliver their content to other Plaxo members who have them in their address book.

Pulse is a very young service, so we’re fine-tuning the various features. We appreciate your feedback.

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