Thing 31: Get Organized with Plaxo

Plaxo seems to offer a great many features and ways to share data and connections with friends, family and colleagues. The mind boggles.

It's easy to use, with the ability to import your address and contact information from a number of sources including Gmail, Yahoo etc, and if any of your contacts are registered with Plaxo, you are automatically updated with their contact details, whenever they are updated - so handy when people change jobs, email addresses etc. Of course this requires them to update themselves which is never guaranteed. You can personalise the information that they have supplied in your own contacts area, which is quite nifty (especially if you know more than one person by the same first name and need to differentiate them).

I do wonder about viruses, given that it's importing contacts from an email list.