Thursday, February 10, 2005
There's a brief article which mentions Plaxo and compares it to Chandler here:
Why PIM’s Are So Compelling?
The Chandler concept is a lot more interesting to me. I'd heard about it a while ago, but it seemed vapourware then.
Looking at the parent website, it seems like they are making significant progress now. They have posted about the acquisition of some new developers from related projects, so there is some significant talent getting to work on this:
Chandler, at the Open Source Applications Foundation
Why PIM’s Are So Compelling?
The Chandler concept is a lot more interesting to me. I'd heard about it a while ago, but it seemed vapourware then.
Looking at the parent website, it seems like they are making significant progress now. They have posted about the acquisition of some new developers from related projects, so there is some significant talent getting to work on this:
Chandler, at the Open Source Applications Foundation
Some more PIM/Syncing browsing results
GMailer is a PHP library for accessing Gmail. Could be useful to integrate gmail contacts with PIM or others.
GMailer and gmail-lite
Plaxo is a nice sync/backup tool that connects to all sorts of PIM tools and has an online companent. It claims some kind of mobile support too which is nice. A very complete solution, but 2 major problems with this: 1 - All your data will be stored unenvrypted on 3rd party servers, so you have to trust yet another startup to secure your data (and continue existing!). 2 - It adds it's own branding into all sorts of intrusive places, like signitures on your emails.
The website is pretty poor on details of the UI and capabilities too. Wouldn't hurt them to post some screen shots and technical details.
All in all, it's a good effort but it won't suit me.
Plaxo
GMailer is a PHP library for accessing Gmail. Could be useful to integrate gmail contacts with PIM or others.
GMailer and gmail-lite
Plaxo is a nice sync/backup tool that connects to all sorts of PIM tools and has an online companent. It claims some kind of mobile support too which is nice. A very complete solution, but 2 major problems with this: 1 - All your data will be stored unenvrypted on 3rd party servers, so you have to trust yet another startup to secure your data (and continue existing!). 2 - It adds it's own branding into all sorts of intrusive places, like signitures on your emails.
The website is pretty poor on details of the UI and capabilities too. Wouldn't hurt them to post some screen shots and technical details.
All in all, it's a good effort but it won't suit me.
Plaxo