Plaxo – Review of new features

I was looking around Plaxo the other day and stumbled upon some new features that I hadn’t seen before. These are features that were newly added with the launch (beta) of Plaxo 3.0. You can read the full details on their Blog post “Introducing an All-New Plaxo”.

The functionality that I thought was a nice touch was the extended list of sync points that you can now connect with. I found them while browsing through the online calendar section (see picture below).

Apparently, you can now do some basic synchronizing with your cell phone without paying any monthly fee. Before you had to use their paid service for any cell phone connectivity.

Plaxo has been my favorite tool since it’s early days. I’ve had all my computers connected to Plaxo to keep my contact list and calendar up to date. I’ve also enjoyed getting automatic updates from friends and family who are on Plaxo without having to read emails from them containing their new contact information or updates.

The Plaxo Pulse is another feature that I’ve been using for a while. But lately with all the new features (groups, feeds, etc) it’s starting to get a bit noisy. I’ll have to start filtering down the amount of information being sent to my Pulse stream. There are also some redundancy in functionality between Facebook, LinkedIn, and other sources but still a nice application.

There are a number of feeds you can aggregate into your Pulse stream. I’ve only bothered to hook in Facebook and LinkedIn so far. There are plenty of others you can hook in to get all your notices in one location.