Creeva’s World 2.0

I’ve done a few posts say­ing the virtues of Plaxo. I will first admit I have not checked the forums, but I have checked their blog. So this is irri­tat­ing for a com­pany that I’ve placed acco­lades on top of in my con­tin­u­ing quest to sync and sim­plify my life.

The issue I am hav­ing is all of my con­tacts of dis­ap­peared. I first noticed this on thurs­day lat week and I let it go con­sid­er­ing it was a tem­po­rary glitch or my browser didn’t ren­der the page prop­erly. My cal­en­der was still work­ing so I was happy at the time.

I logged in today though and my cal­en­der was still work­ing, but still no con­tacts. No con­tacts means their new “social net­work” called Pulse is com­pletely use­less also. Now nor­mally this wouldn’t be a big deal to me since I’ve dealt with other minor issues with Plaxo in the past. But I had to re authen­ti­cate yahoo today in my account and then I hoped my con­tacts would re pop­u­late — they did not. So the­o­ret­i­cally all con­tacts pop­u­la­tion (the pud­ding in the Plaxo pie) is now bro­ken for my account.

The other sync points I use — out­look, google, yahoo, msn, and aim are all up to date with each other. So my data may not be cen­tral­ized but it is up to date. I’ll give them another week or so to decide if this “hub” is worth using if I can’t get to it for my cen­tral need. This issue is highly annoy­ing but not dev­as­tat­ing in my life as a whole since I still have the infor­ma­tion. This may how­ever make me rethink giv­ing Plaxo the sec­ond chance I did give it.