Plaxo is a great contact management service that has been begging to be integrated with other Web 2.0 services. Now it has.
Plaxo is a free, easy-to-use contact management service that synchronizes your Outlook contacts with a web-accessible contact list, and allows the contacts on one computer to be synchronized with contact lists other computers, which it does with ease (ast least with Outlook and Outlook Express).
Not only that, it has a push system among Plaxo members exemplified as follows. A friend of mine who is a Plaxo member recently modified their cell phone number in their own Outlook contact entry and that information automatically got modified in both my Outlook contact lists. If everyone were a Plaxo member, keeping up with contact info would be effortless.
People have been hoping that Plaxo would collaborate or even merge with LinkedIn, an online business network (why do people call it a social network when people use it for business?). While we still wait for that to happen, scanR, a free online scanning service, announced integration of their online service with Plaxo’s. You can take a photo of a business card with your cell phone, e-mail it to scanR, and they will scan the information and automatically enter it into your Plaxo database, after which it gets automatically added to all of your Outlook contact lists. Very cool. And about time. Bring on the Plaxo integration, and more Plaxo members.