Comcast Buys Plaxo And Legacy for Annoying People

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Plaxo broke into the market by becoming one of the first social networks via its architecture of address-book auto updates. It also broke into the market by annoying people who signed up, sending them seemingly endless requests to update personal information. You can read more about the Comcast-Plaxo deal here. Writes Redgee Capili, Plaxo's senior privacy officer:

While Plaxo executives and developers say they learned long ago their lesson about the annoyance emails, and say they've reformed (some people still swear by the service), for many early adopters it was too late. Since then, services like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have skyrocketed in popularity, while Plaxo has struggled to reinvent itself.

(To this day, there are 76,700 Google search results for the term "Plaxo"+"annoying.")

Plaxo execs say it could be a "few months" before the deal is completed.