Plaxo recently announced that is has sold out to Comcast - the axis of all things evil in the cable industry (though much more reliable than Adelphia).
I signed up for Plaxo years back thinking it would be a good central location to store all my contacts in ‘the cloud’. But there’s really no point to it any more. For one, I’m a .Mac subscriber which makes my contacts available across all my Macs, online and iPod.
Plaxo was headed in the social networking direction, but with LinkedIn and Facebook as competition, there really isn’t much point to using a third service. Now with the Comcast acquistion, Plaxo’s control of your data just can’t be trusted, IMO. Comcast is notorious for poor customer service and screwing you on the service you get. I’m dropped Comcast years back and after a short stint with DirecTV, I’m fully in the arms of glorvious fibre thanks to Verizon FiOS for TV and Internet and Vonage for VoIP.
So today I’ve deleted my Plaxo account. You can do the same via the following link:
