Opt out of Plaxo emails

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Plaxo - NOT

Plaxo - NOT 04/10/2004 04:45 PM
Mo' Plaxo?.

As a followup to my entry earlier this week about opting out of Plaxo, Stacy Martin from Plaxo commented "Thanks for using the Service. We've offered the Opt-out capabilities for about 6 months now..."

Umm. Stacy. One thing.

I never used Plaxo. I never used the service. I didn't appreciate the unsolicited mail and I never wanted to share anything. I never should have been forced into Plaxo in the first place and Plaxo shouldn't be trying to lever my personal information into a business model.

I never should have had to opt-out in the first place!!

And remember folks - friends don't force friends to use Plaxo, friends use Friends< /A>.

If you want my contact info, <A href="javascript:openWindow(http://www .byte.org/blog/cmd=view_user/username=ross, 'info', 450, 600);">click here instead. If you need more contact deets, become my friend ;)

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You go Ross - tell um like it is.  That guy left comments for me too. They're using they're $20M of VC money for something at least!

How to Opt Out of Plaxo

How to Opt Out of Plaxo 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
I hope, having gone to this opt-out page on the Plaxo site, I'll never, ever be subjected to another one of those annoying update-your-contact-info requests.

Opting out of Plaxo

Opting out of Plaxo 04/09/2004 03:56 PM

Apologies to friends who use Plaxo, but I'm opting out of Plaxo since it has become a source of spam for me and I feel like I'm doing all the work. Anyone who wants to find my contact info can just Google me or find it on my wiki page.

via Dan Gillmor

More Hype For Plaxo

More Hype For Plaxo 06/15/2004 03:32 AM
You can always tell when a lazy PR person has been given the job to hype up some random startup in Silicon Valley. That's when the "profile" piece comes out, focusing almost entirely on the 22-year-old founder of a company, rather than the company itself or what it does. It looks like that's the latest strategy to hype up Plaxo, with a story that focuses on its young co-founders and the similarities the company has to Yahoo and Google - namely founded by two Stanford students and funded by Michael Moritz. Of course, the article leaves out the differences - such as the fact that a fair number of folks find Plaxo's service both annoyin g and creepy< /a> - and they're still searchi ng for a business model. It also leaves out the fact that one of Plaxo's founders was recently forced out of the company, suggesting that not all is well at Plaxo central. I still fail to see how Plaxo is any more than a small feature of an email system - and the only thing I learned from this article is that the company likes to compare itself to multi-billion dollar companies that actually do have business models.

plaxo wants to support FOAF

plaxo wants to support FOAF 02/19/2004 02:55 AM
and needs to know how to make it work. clue them in.

Yahoo Invests in Plaxo

Yahoo Invests in Plaxo 05/24/2004 03:48 PM
"Plaxo integrates Yahoo's search engine directly into the Outlook e-mail program. Under the deal with Yahoo, Plaxo will get paid for channeling people to Yahoo's search engine."

Plaxo Does Have A Business Model... But
Not Really

Plaxo Does Have A Business Model... But
Not Really 05/24/2004 03:05 AM
I'll admit that I have not been kind to Plaxo in the past. Ever since the service was first announced, it sounded like a bubble era pointless dot com. There was a lot of hype about the young founder (previously founded Napster!) and the "service" itself didn't seem like much of a product. At most, it was a feature of a larger product, and that larger product might just turn out to be something like Microsoft Outlook. If the system was remotely useful, you would think that Microsoft would just build it in to Outlook. However, it didn't even seem that useful. If anything, I expected it to be annoying - and has it ever been annoying. I now block all Plaxo requests, but for a while, the amount of Plaxo spam was ridiculous. Then, of course, there's the privacy question. While Plaxo now goes to great lengths to swear up and down that they keep your info private, they don't seem to understand the real privacy complaint: when your friends give your address to some 3rd party service, are they violating your privacy? It's a question that's not entirely clear. In the meantime, this was all made worse by the fact that Plaxo still didn't have anything remotely resembling a business model (shades of the bubble era again...). Well, now they claim they've solved that issue, and have announced that their business model is a $20/year paid version for which you'll get such great features as... well, they actually don't seem to know yet. You will get better customer support though. It always worries me when companies decide that better customer support is a premium "feature," because they've just set up the incentives to mean that they give the absolute worst customer support to anyone not in that tier. This doesn't seem particularly compelling. They're basically saying their new business model is that they'll annoy me less if I pay? No thanks...

Plaxo Business Model

Plaxo Business Model 05/24/2004 12:50 PM
Plaxo is out trying to explain they have a business model and are addressing privacy concerns. A premium service at $20/month that includes support and, well, what else they are not saying or don't know yet. Techdirt: They're basically saying...

Apparently, I joined Plaxo.

Apparently, I joined Plaxo. 06/29/2004 10:23 AM
I received a surprise email from Plaxo today, updating me on the status of my account. I'd forgotten I'd once joined, in the spirit of adventure. So, I went to the Plaxo site where they've prominently posted reassuring information about their privacy policy. I found where I can opt out of receiving update requests, although it results in the following almost-funny error message: The e-mail address you are trying to opt-out from (self@evident.com) has already been claimed by another user (possibly you). You will not be able to opt-out at this time. (A search of their knowledge base turns...

Congrats to Mark Jen, now at Plaxo

Congrats to Mark Jen, now at Plaxo 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
It looks like Mark found himself a new job (Plaxo) after a whirlwind of media attention and job interviews. Congrats, Mark. Lemme know if you want to drop by Yahoo for lunch again sometime....

Sean Parker kicked out of Plaxo

Sean Parker kicked out of Plaxo 04/21/2004 03:26 AM

Although I had some problems with the Plaxo model, I hate hearing stories like this. Sean Parker, the founder and visionary behind Plaxo was kicked out rather rudely by the VCs. I don't know the details, but it sounds bad.

San Jose Mercury

The company sent out an anonymous, terse statement that Parker is ``no longer with Plaxo,'' but called him a ``visionary, creative entrepreneur'' and ended with: ``We thank him for his hard work and wish him well.''

In reality, though, a source said Parker has been locked out, and everyone at the company has been instructed not to talk with Parker, except by way of the company's lawyer, Ray Hickson.

When contacted and asked whether this arrangement is ``normal,'' Hickson said: ``I can't discuss a client personnel matter with newspaper reporters.''

Parker himself issued a terse statement: ``While the company is moving to a new stage of its growth, the management team remains committed to executing my original vision,'' he said. ``The company remains in capable hands.''

I've founded several companies and as companies grow, the skills required to be the chief executive change. When I've founded (or helped found) companies in the past, I've usually stepped aside to allow someone with better administrative and sales skills to lead the company after it's up and running. This was the case with Digital Garage and PSINet Japan and to a certain extent Infoseek Japan. I seem to be the most useful getting things going, not running them.

As a VC/investor, I've seen my share of visionary CEOs who can't run the company, but we usually try to keep them involved in some way and stay on good terms so we can invest in their next good company. I don't see how you can continue being a VC in the valley being cruel to serial entrepreneurs.

Pierre Omidyar of eBay is probably one of the best examples of knowing when to bring on a real CEO, but staying involved as the founder. I think he and his investors were smart about this.

Ja son Calacanis blogs about this on thesocialsoftwareweblog

Do You Violate Your Friends' Privacy By
Using Plaxo?

Do You Violate Your Friends' Privacy By
Using Plaxo? 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
It appears that others are beginning to pick up on one of the fundamental problems with services like Plaxo that we've been discussing here recently. With all the focus these days on making sure corporations protect your personal info, why are people so quick to sign up with services like Plaxo and hand over all of the private info of friends, co-workers and acquaintances? In fact, this reporter is wondering if Plaxo is violating new data privacy laws in Europe. When I give out my private contact info to you, does that mean it's okay for you to give that to a private company? While most people are concerned about companies giving away our data, why are we okay with our friends doing the same thing?

Plaxo, Yahoo make deal on search

Plaxo, Yahoo make deal on search 05/24/2004 10:38 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 24 2004 2:30PM GMT

Start-up Plaxo sketches out business
plan

Start-up Plaxo sketches out business
plan 05/24/2004 12:03 AM

Greenlight Wireless signs deal with
Plaxo, Inc.

Greenlight Wireless signs deal with
Plaxo, Inc. 09/16/2004 03:28 AM
Development is underway to "Plaxo-enable" the award-winning Skweezer service, providing access to the fastest-growing contact management software and network. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

Z***ING EMAILS !

Z***ING EMAILS ! 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http-equiv_at_excite.com (Mar 06 2004)

Using Personalized Emails on the Web

Using Personalized Emails on the Web 07/05/2002 03:40 PM
"...has seen great success with personalizing their pieces - so much so that DM mail shops have expensive laser divisions that add all kinds of personalized touches from a database after the basic print run is finished."

32,000 "Why I'm Tired" Emails

32,000 "Why I'm Tired" Emails 07/14/2004 05:08 AM

Prank Emails

Prank Emails 01/05/2005 06:56 AM
Some are a bit silly but this particular prank email is transcendant. Batman and Robin could not find as just a cause. Finally a modern corporate warrior get what he deserves.

Zimbabwe blocks emails

Zimbabwe blocks emails 06/01/2004 09:10 AM
Laughing Bob Mugabe at it again...

US Government reads emails

US Government reads emails 05/27/2004 04:47 PM

Emails that come back to haunt

Emails that come back to haunt 04/26/2004 06:18 AM
Deleted? Maybe not...

Flame Emails Are Not A Crime

Flame Emails Are Not A Crime 03/22/2005 07:03 PM
A few more details might be useful to understand what really happened in this case, but a woman accused of harassment for sending "e-mails laced with obscenities and references to Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden" to a website that had pro-death penalty statements has been cleared, after the judge said she didn't actually break any laws. Since there were just a few emails, they weren't seen as harassing, and since they were just directed to the website in general (which asked for feedback), rather than the individual who specifically received them, the judge determined that they weren't specific threats or harassments. While the ruling makes sense on the free speech side of things, these other arguments don't seem to make as much sense. Just because the website doesn't indicate who the emails are going to, they're still going to someone. Either way, for those of you who enjoy participating in various flame wars, it certainly seems like this ruling says that free speech protects you (at least in this court's jurisdiction) -- assuming you don't become threatening or continue to harass the person.

Work emails are mostly personal

Work emails are mostly personal 03/20/2003 10:40 AM

Send Emails After Your Death

Send Emails After Your Death 11/15/2003 09:52 AM

How Do You Save Important Emails?

How Do You Save Important Emails? 12/24/2003 02:36 PM
You know all those books full of letters written by famous people? Now that everything is email, will such things be possible in the future? The first reaction is that it only makes it more likely, since people are much more likely to write down their thoughts these days and send them to people, but some folks are concerned about how such correspondences will be saved. They're worried that there's no good way to save digital contents, and that anything you do will be obsolete a decade from now. Many people even recommend printing out and keeping a paper archive of important emails. Of course, these days, it seems that most systems have a pretty straight upgrade path from old formats to new. The only area where a real problem may arise is if someone didn't upgrade their email system for ages and all the standards changed and the digital media storage eroded. I think a bigger problem may be in picking out the valuable correspondences from all the spam and forwards and junk and unimportant emails.

When Even Legitimate Emails Are
Overwhelming

When Even Legitimate Emails Are
Overwhelming 06/07/2004 10:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about the so-called (and greatly exaggerated) "death of email." Almost all of these, however, are discussing the problems associated with spam. Professor Lawrence Lessig is discovering a different kind of problem. As he's become something of a net.celebrity he's started receiving so much personal email that he can no longer effectively respond to it all. He even sent out a note telling people he hasn't responded to that he's given up and will not be responding to their email - though, he's quite sorry about it. Still, as some people in the article point out, no one says he needs to respond to every email he receives. If someone is emailing him who does not know him, he shouldn't necessarily feel obligated to respond to each and every message. In some sense, this does raise the question about the definition of "spam" again. If spam is "anythi ng I don't like," is getting to much personal email spam as well?

Why encrypted emails don't work

Why encrypted emails don't work 06/14/2004 10:01 AM
Today, I got an encrypted email. Which is fine, as I use PGP and all - but it was sent to my work address using my private key. (Yes, they are separate - they have to be separate.)

After much hassling and back-and-forthing of the email messages and keys, I managed to open the original mail. In which, it said:

"If you can't open this email, it's because I've used your PGP key from the jspwiki.org< /a> -site. Do you have a corporate one?"

Well, DUH.

Sending encrypted mail means that the mail cannot be read unless you have the proper key. And it does not help much to ask for the key in the encrypted mail itself - because if I could read it, you wouldn't need to ask, now would you? My public PGP key very clearly also does not include my work address, so one would think I don't want work-related email using it...

Oh well.

Even if simple usability issues such as key management seem to be difficult to fathom, then how on earth are people supposed to understand basic concepts of security - signing, encryption, choosing wise passwords, keeping your PGP secret keys really secret, key revokation, etc.

It's not gonna work. Unless someone figures out a far, far more comprehensible manner of explaining security than currently is used. Security is too abstract. People can't comprehend it. We need a way to make security more concrete, much like having an actual physical lock.

One in 12 emails infected with virus

One in 12 emails infected with virus 08/17/2004 09:31 AM
Manchester Online Aug 17 2004 2:03PM GMT

Emails damage your health

Emails damage your health 06/15/2004 08:32 AM
It was five years ago today... 15 June 1999

32,000 'Why I'm Tired' Emails

32,000 'Why I'm Tired' Emails 07/14/2004 06:50 AM
Slashdot Jul 14 2004 10:55AM GMT

Stolen computer had old emails

Stolen computer had old emails 12/24/2003 01:53 AM
Daily Telegraph Australia Dec 24 2003 1:45AM ET

DNA technique protects against 'evil'
emails

DNA technique protects against 'evil'
emails 08/19/2004 09:56 AM

Two thirds of emails now spam: official

Two thirds of emails now spam: official 05/25/2004 10:00 AM
Just in case you hadn't noticed

Import thousands of old emails into
Mail.app

Import thousands of old emails into
Mail.app 04/28/2004 11:33 AM
Once upon a time, I used Outlook Express and then moved onto Entourage. I used to save my sent and deleted email each year as individual files and then create a text index so I could search them using Sherlock. I had quite a ...

Man charged for hoax tsunami emails

Man charged for hoax tsunami emails 01/03/2005 03:05 AM
iafrica.com Jan 3 2005 6:32AM GMT

Man, 40, admits tsunami hoax emails

Man, 40, admits tsunami hoax emails 01/03/2005 08:23 AM
Death notices sent to relatives of missing people

President Clinton's Two Emails, Now On
Display

President Clinton's Two Emails, Now On
Display 01/26/2004 06:27 PM
You may remember that soon after President Bush took office, he told people that he could no longer email anyone since any of his emails were likely to become public at some point. Well, it turns out that his predecessor, President Clinton, has now made his own emails public as part of his library. Of course, the emails are not that interesting. There are a grand total of two emails. Yes, that's right: two. Even better, the first email is a "test" email to make sure his email account worked. The second, which was apparently created with the help of staffers, was sent to John Glenn while he was up in the space shuttle. Meanwhile, though, his staff was pretty busy on the email front, sending out approximately 40 million emails.

An AppleScript to export Entourage
emails

An AppleScript to export Entourage
emails 02/16/2004 11:55 AM
Entourage stores email data in a single, monolithic 'Database' file. After time, this file can become too large to fit on a CD-R if one wants to backup his or her emails. This script exports all emails contained in a given m...
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