I've been getting a ton of Plaxo invites from my business connections. Its been very interesting to see the overlap between what Plaxo is doing and where Linkedin should eventually be.
A few reasons why I believe they should merge:
1. It would make for an interesting Valentines Day merger
2. I like how the tech industry is utilizing entertainment celebrity marriage slang such as the recent (MiHoo) name generated from Microsoft + Yahoo! acquisition talks, but in this case it would be Plinxo or Plaxedin! (quick someone buy those domains!)
3. When i started using Linkedin I already had over 2700 business contacts in my Plaxo address book. To this day I only have around 1500 linkedin connections. Linkedin could greatly benefit from the amount of varied users who are on Plaxo.
4. Plaxo has a much more Facebook "like" user interface which lends it to be more useful to a mass population. Don't get me wrong- Linkedin is profitable because of its focus in the executive level players currently using it- I wonder how much longer that is going to be until that changes...(my guess is less than 12 months)
5. It would relieve me from having to go to an extra site just to add the same business contact (and all the Web2.0 brethren sayeth...AMEN)
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