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Plaxo sold to Google

Plaxo, the contact-sharing service trying to reinvent itself as a social network, may have sold itself to Google for something close to $200 million.And if the rumor's true, I think the companies may be doing it out offriendship. One could bloviate endlessly here about industryconsolidation, user-data portability, and so on -- and I'm sure you'll read plenty of that.I think the real reason is much simpler. Brad Fitzpatrick, theLiveJournal founder now leading Google's social-network strategy, wantsto work with Joseph Smarr, Plaxo's chief platform architect.

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Posted on Feb. 11th, 2008 at 09:18 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]msilverstar

I concur with your analysis. At least it's not a billion?
Posted on Feb. 12th, 2008 03:00 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]greenwitch

Interesting.
Posted on Feb. 12th, 2008 04:41 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]sylumgator

I think, with the (so far) failed attempt at the microsoft/yahoo buyout, you are going to start to see some of these smaller companies starting to affiliate to google. Microsoft did buy the company that owns Sideick yesterday (I think it was). If I was a smallish company, I would rather sell now to google, than get bought out by microsoft later.
Posted on Feb. 12th, 2008 01:52 pm (UTC) | | Reply

[info]antiaol

"Brad Fitzpatrick, theLiveJournal founder now leading Google's social-network strategy, wantsto work with Joseph Smarr, Plaxo's chief platform architect."

All the blood in my body is turning into tiny little icicles as I write this, and God Almighty does it hurt. Brad is doing WHAT? He's leading Google's...??? *passes out cold*

Why is Brad so hot to work with the Plaxo guy?

Also, did you notice your words did something funny in the text editor? Like, they mated?
Posted on Feb. 13th, 2008 08:32 am (UTC) | | Reply

[info]antiaol

Wait...Sequoia is an investor, and it's being bought by Google? Ha ha, another payday for Sequoia, same as YouTube was. Almost exactly a year later, too. Good one.

Plaxo creeps me out. One of those let's-aggregate-everything-you-do-including-taking-a-piss services. And includes AIM Triton? The worst version of AIM ever.

Check this out: "Annoying Plaxo Sells Itself"
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/01/annoying-service-plaxo-sells-itself-with-mystery-banker.html

Do you use Plaxo, [info]alchemy? I stay as far away from it and LinkedIn and FB and Flickr as I can...I'm too anti-social for any of it, I guess...
Posted on Feb. 13th, 2008 09:03 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]ex_alchemy547

Only thing I use is Flickr because there's an easy slideshow script I have installed on my website. All I have to do is upload my art and the gallery adds it in without me having to change scripts all the time.

Is Flickr bad?
Posted on Feb. 13th, 2008 09:44 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply