Plaxo introduces Thunderbird integration

Free online sync provider and privacy gurus Plaxo have launched a Thunderbird toolbar to allow you to access your synchronised contacts. This is great news for fans of the open source mail client (like me), and one of the most requested features. Well done Plaxo for listening to your community and supporting open source.

For anyone who hasn't heard of Plaxo, they run a free service which allows you to synchronise contacts and calander entries between multiple mail clients across the web, provide a online backup, and access to your data via a secure website. It's an easy setup, fire and forget soloution. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I am a big fan. Anyone who's been reading this blog will remember a critical review I wrote a while back, to which Plaxo marketeer Adam Lasnik wrote a detailed reply and persuaded me to try them out. That was in Febuary, and since then Plaxo has proved itself a true 'killer application' and I wouldn't be without it.

Update: Plaxo employee Stacy Martin has commented that the new release is both cross platform and open source. Great news for community developers.