FROM AN EMAIL BY A FELLOW LINKEDIN-ITE
>Do you use any of the other online networking forums/tools such as Plaxo?
I’m very active on LinkedIn, Facebook, and have accounts on many other sites that I don’t use a lot. New one comes out I try it just to see if it’s the LinkedIn replacement.
I am a blogger here, so I spend a lot of time on that. I frequent a slew of LinkedIn related forums. As well as many Yahoo Groups
Plaxo is a strange duck. As an email address sync tool it was: lame in V1, good in V2, and broken in the new V3, what they call “beta”. I use that and Corex Card Scan, which was flawless, but is now just average and has intermittent problems.
Plaxo is now trying to morph into LinkedIn. LinkedIn is trying to morph into Facebook, Facebook is trying to morph into LinkedIn.
Nobody wants to focus on their own niche and focus on doing that well.
>I’d like to know which is most useful or if they all are useful in their own right.
The problem is no one is satisfied to just do something well. Every one wants to be a “swiss army knife”. SO your “useful” question can NOT be a static answer.
With the new limits of Plaxo and now ISPs becoming involved with Plaxo, it’s all muddled.
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