Plaxo's social network Pulse to launch on Monday

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Plaxo's social network Pulse to launch on Monday

by Chris Gilmer Aug 3rd 2007

plaxo to launch social network pulse on monday

How many social networks do we need? With 15 million registered users, Plaxo thinks there is definitely room for another.

Plaxo is rumored to be opening its doors to a whole new social network on Monday called Pulse. We've covered Plaxo quite often in the past, but if you have never used it: the service is an online contact management tool and calendar that organizes and stores all information online, with syncing capabilities. The company is said to be working to be an open social network by displaying contacts feeds of activities online, from photos, wish lists, playlists, profiles and blog posts. We will have to wait until Monday to see if its a serious front runner to Facebook, and LinkedIn. Stay tuned.

DLS readers, are you ready for a shiny new social network?

Tags: plaxo, pulse, social network, SocialNetwork, web2, web2.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Marc said 1:29PM on 8-03-2007

Bah... Just what we need - another social network. Let's worry less about creating more user-generated content, and more on the quality of the content itself...

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