The Plaxo Pulse limit of 1000 connections- where's the logic?

Posted by andrey.golub at 08:58 | |

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1. Noooo!! Ma sono pazzi questi qua! Bisogna fucilarli tutti, hai il mio supporto!

   Posted by Mariela ( Anonymous )/213.156.55.136 on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:08

2. Un Social Network che limita le connessioni!
   è quasi una barzelletta....

   Posted by Guest ( Anonymous )/144.254.94.132 on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:44

3. Non sei il primo che ha questi problemi con Plaxo,
   ma non è certamente simpatico,
   ti do un consiglio,
   i contatti importanti e che ti possono portare businness,
   girali a me,
   li tratterò benissimo :)
   Gli amici ci sono per questo. ;) lol :)

   Posted by Carlo on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:49

4. I loved Plaxo when it was an address book on-line. Then it changed in a "social network", but I never loved it.
   Personally I hate the proliferation of social networks in the last yers.. LinkedIn was enough.... now there are at least 5 social/business networks and it is starting to become difficult to manage them.
   
   I personally am on PlaxoPulse just because the huge number of requests that I was receiving to join..join..join... to stop it I decided to join, but I still prefer to use LinkedIn...

   Posted by Raffaele ( Anonymous )/212.141.48.2 on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:51

5. anche linkedin, per la creazione di un gruppo, arrivati a 1.000, ci ha fermato...
   non nego lo stupore.
   Poi però, previo comunicazione, hanno tolto la limitazione, in quanto ledeva i loro stessi interessi.

   Posted by Mauro R. on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:58

6. x Raffaele-
   thank you for this great comment that is corresponding to 100% with what most other people I know think about Plaxo Pulse! :(
   
   from myself- I really LOVED Plaxo when it served as an on-line Address Book to me. Now? it's "something strange" and I use it by the same reason as you- many OTHER people have joined and involve also me :)
   
   btw, also about LinkedIn I really like this your comment-
   now there are at least 5 social/business networks and it is starting to become difficult to manage them.
   
   - YES! but the "problems" are even bigger- look, the CLONES are coming now:
   Social Networking in Russia part II, Business Networking: will Russians need a LINKEDIN localized?
   
   where is this world going to?

   Posted by Andrey Golub on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 11:05

7. io voglio scendere da Plaxo il più presto possibile e ti consiglio di usare un comune server come mailman o majordomo, che esistevano anche prima del web 1.0, per l'invio di email.
   Infine, i newsgroup del 1985 non avevano certo limitazioni sul numero di utenti connessi a una discussione.
   Dovremmo smettere di dare il supporto a chi cerca di ingabbiare più utenti che può nel suo recinto senza avere l'intenzione di dare un servizio.
   

   Posted by mico on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 11:05

8. Personally, I really thought Plaxo was a great tool - back when it did one thing only and tried to do it well, namely an online address book that I could use to synchronise all my other address books (home PC, laptop, work computer, etc).
   
   The disenchantment started when I tried it from a Mac - the Plaxo plugin for Mac seems riddled with bugs, and has managed to do nothing except consistently fuck up my contact databases.
   
   Then, instead of fixing/improving what was basically a really good service with some excellent ideas behind it, they clearly decided they HAD to jump onto the bloody "me too!" social networking bandwagon, and spend all their energy on that.
   
   I only joined Pulse because of the sheer volume of "Join!" harassment I was getting, but personally I hate Pulse, and don't use it.
   
   I've also given up on using Plaxo to synchronise address books - .Mac is not free, but at least it works for my Macs, and now, with the new Me service they're introducing, it'll do Outlook etc as well. So it's bye-bye Plaxo, as far as I'm concerned.
   
   I'm sorry to hear about your woes, Andrey - and I hope you find another address book synchronisation tool that does the trick for you!
   
   André
   

   Posted by Guest ( Anonymous )/194.209.239.66 on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 12:31

9. x Andrey
   
   I want to quote your words
   
   "YES! but the "problems" are even bigger- look, the CLONES are coming now:
   Social Networking in Russia part II, Business Networking: will Russians need a LINKEDIN localized?
   
   where is this world going to?"
   
   The problem is just what you said.
   
   The born of lots of clones that wants to propose them as the "new social network" are just fragmenting the sharing of personal and professional contacts
   
   Just look on the web: Myspace, Facebook, Filckr, Google, LiveSpace, Plaxo, LinkedIn and many many others, everyday.
   
   They all have basically the same function, connects people. Some of them are doing this really good, some not. Some are using pictures to connect people, some blogs, some personal informations.
   
   This, in my idea, generate the opposite than the expected results. It's impossible for everyone to follow and update a profile on ALL these networks and this will cause that the informations of some persons will be "closed" on one space or in another one.
   
   So you will never be in contact with "all the world", also if only theoretically.
   
   If the situation will not change in the future, the dream of connecting all people in the world will surely die.
   
   You are asking "Where is this world going to?"
   In my view, unfortunately the commercial interests stills are greater than everything else.
   Most of these newtorks are coming out to collect the higher number of "contacts" and use their numbers for commercial purposes (sells advertising on their sites, direct marketing and so on...) and I think that joining the different networks in one big worldwide networks will be really difficult, also if the real goal must be this, for everyone.
   
   But for sure you know the situation better than me :o)
   So sorry for this looooong and "easy" point of view :o)
   
   

   Posted by Raffaele ( Anonymous )/212.141.48.2 on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 13:15

10. x Raffaele
    
    - But for sure you know the situation better than me :o)
    - So sorry for this looooong and "easy" point of view :o)
    
    
    THANK YOU SO MUCH!
    it's true I am deeply inside the subject, but "not so much inside" to not want listening the others' opinions :)

    Posted by Andrey on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 14:04

11. thanks for your open mind, Andrey.
    
    The funny thing is that I see all the people here decided to join PlaxoPulse to not get annoied anymore from the spam "Join now!" message :o)
    
    So probably Plaxo had a good and, seems, successfull strategy in this :o)

    Posted by Raffaele ( Anonymous )/212.141.48.2 on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 14:27

12. Once again I think that Social Networking is a bubble of lies close to explode.
    People have networked on the Internet for thirty years before SN became fashionable and have done so using the right way: shared protocols an file formats. Nobody cares wich mail system I use as long as it speaks SMTP and I can get e-mail from anywhere.
    The news have been the shared forum of the Intenet since the 70s thanks to a protocol for propagating data (NNTP) and the shared effort of all the servers using a simple mechanism like store and forward. Every participating server would have a local copy of messages for local browsing with any client a user would care to compile and install.
    Now a lot of sites are trying to assert themselvesa as the true standard trying to keep she sheep inside the fence and milk them with page impressions. This is why they will tell you "you have a message" rather than "Paul says how about lunch together?".
    Nobody succeeds on the Internet at keeping the sheep inside the fence because things always change towards openness. Is is just the same nonsense as trying to force you to use a specific e-mail program to communicate.
    The reality is that people want to talk, to share ideas, solve problems, find partners, start relationships for fun, sex or business, maybe not strictly in this order. People will therefore always choose the opportunity to reach more people with less hassles for better results, more meaningful communication and less noise.
    Further, being there for the sake of being there and blasting messages to be noticed is an other stupid pastime that will be remembered as one of the many nonsenses of fashion in the 00s.
    People want to communicate for all the reasons i exposed for getting results, not add a +1 on their log for the sake of it, like maniacs. So I guess users will start to ask themselves what do I really get out of this? And choose the best habits and best services.
    for me, for example, Plaxo is a useless parasite trying to build on me and constantly shouting you have useless news. LinkedIn is a valuable source of contacts and opportunities, MySpace is a mistery, some friends are there but cannot say why, but I will stay there as a musician. Facebook is an other mistery, but sometimes fun. MilanIn a different story because makes me deal with real people.
    My closest electronic friends anyhow are on a mailing list that is not accessible or publicly archived on the Internet and we've been talking for twenty years, pretty exotic these days...

    Posted by mico on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 16:23