Comments on: Will Google Pull a Plaxo?

By: Gmail Social Network Feature? « Technobabbles

Gmail Social Network Feature? « Technobabbles — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:52:09 +0000

[...] Web activity from our friends. Sure, they have to opt-in, but it’s better than automatically spamming people with updates from everyone they’ve ever emailed (even once). Unrequested sharing of items in [...]

By: Jonathan Crow

Jonathan Crow — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:28:48 +0000

Fair enough. The default should be set to have the notifications turned off.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:58:43 +0000

Jonathan,

You like it, you use it. I don’t want it, so why do I have to sign up (or just log in?? since I am using the original Plaxo..) and figure out how to shut off these notifications? Auto-including me is spam.

By: Jonathan Crow

Jonathan Crow — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:41:07 +0000

Zoli,

Sorry have to disagree with you about Plaxo. Unfair.

Early on sure. But now they offer quite a granularity in the choices you have for what emails you receive. True you have to understand that the options are there and it isn’t very intuitive about how to get there. But, I think Pulse is pretty powerful and I am willing to have some trade-offs. Plus I have to admit I actually like the birthday notices – I am really bad at remembering dates. But I wish they could let me choose to only have certain birthdays like friends.

By: Could be a welcome addition

Could be a welcome addition — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:58:10 +0000

I’m sick of rewriting everyones new cell phone #, new email address, etc. I’d love to have people’s new contact info automatically updated. Please no email reminders of birthdays google, but if it’s running in the background and I can send an email with more confidence that it’s going to get to the person, great!

By: Google should be careful : The Last Podcast

Google should be careful : The Last Podcast — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:44:38 +0000

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By: gregory

gregory — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:09:25 +0000

if it is something that demands my attention, i will drop the service..

By: GMail: The New Social Network

GMail: The New Social Network — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:30:41 +0000

[...] fact, something I had hoped Google would do for quite some time. I don’t share the fear that some seem to have – that it’ll become an overbearing spammy nuisence. I do, however, see this road to a [...]

By: Gmail’s new chat: Social or spam? - - mathewingram.com/work

Gmail’s new chat: Social or spam? - - mathewingram.com/work — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:50:28 +0000

[...] actual friends. He compares the potential fiasco that would be involved to Plaxo’s notorious spam approach in its early days, but I think he may be overreacting. For one thing, you can choose to show only [...]