Plaxo in the News

November 3, 2009

Google 'Hybrid Onboarding' Simplifies Remote Login

Want to simplify the process of creating online accounts? Google on Tuesday announced that it has finalized a two-step log-in process that lets you use your Google information to set up accounts on other Web sites.

November 3, 2009

Google Helps with the Password Juggle

Search giant joins Facebook and Plaxo in rolling out new technology aimed at decreasing password rage among users.

September 20, 2009

Yahoo! instant log-ins take new OAuth

Yahoo! has combined OpenID instant log-ins with OAuth data swapping. In other words, after logging in to a third party web site with your Yahoo! account, you can now swap profile data, contacts, and other info between the two.

September 2, 2009

Plaxo: On the Pulse of TimesPeople

If you’re a TimesPeople member, chances are good that you’re also a member of another social network (or two or twelve). And you probably long for the day when all your social tools will sync up. Today, Plaxo users move a step closer to that lofty ideal: now you can link your TimesPeople activity to your Plaxo Pulse stream.

July 22, 2009

With MyCareer launch, Plaxo moves deeper into business networking

Social address book service Plaxo has been busy over the last few years building out social features, like a lifestreaming service, and integrating social data from sites like Facebook. But now it’s moving deeper into helping people do business networking.

July 6, 2009

If you do one thing this week…sort out your personal presence

Employers are increasingly going online to vet job applicants, which means those Facebook photos of you drunk at a party would be better hidden away, says Laura Marcus

June 22, 2009

SEO Tips For Building Your Personal Brand

Most firms now recognize the importance of developing a powerful online brand. Now, an increasing number of professionals have started to recognize the benefits of developing a personal brand.

April 27, 2009

Demo day at Facebook: First Open Stream products

After announcing Monday morning that it's opening up more of the Facebook API that will allow the creation of new stand-alone applications that use more of the Facebook data stream than they could have previously, the company hosted an event in the afternoon where developers demonstrated their use of the new expanded feed.

April 27, 2009

Live From Facebook Technology Tasting

I'm here at Facebook's office in downtown Palo Alto, where the company is holding a special Technology Tasting to announce and demonstrate its latest APIs and other features it is going to begin offering developers.

March 26, 2009

Portable Contacts lets you get friends’ info on other sites

MySpace, Plaxo and now Google all support a new open standard for sharing social data across web services. Called Portable Contacts, it lets third parties securely access data like your address book in Gmail or your friends list for use on other sites.

March 10, 2009

Recession Career Guide: How to Move Up and On at Work

Caring for your career is more important than ever. Whether you want to move up, make more money, or change everything, here's how to know what you're worth, who's worth knowing, and what's next.

February 18, 2009

Plaxo Debuts New Job Search Service for “Viral Hiring”

Plaxo has partnered with SimplyHired to launch a new job search service, the company announced Wednesday.

February 11, 2009

Photos From Facebook HQ: Free Love, Free Jerky & Freedom for User Data

After a period of dramatic tension, social networking giant Facebook has joined forces with the OpenID community working for a distributed system of standards-based, non-proprietary user identity. It's a move we think bodes well for the web and yesterday the first big collaborative event was held since the union was announced. Facebook hosted an OpenID User Experience Summit at its headquarters in downtown Palo Alto.

February 10, 2009

Plaxo Shows Us How Painless OpenID Can Be

Remember all that talk about how normal, everyday users find OpenID too confusing and difficult to use? And how the login system’s nagging usability issues will prevent it from being adopted by the mainstream web audience?

February 10, 2009

Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method

The most-watched geek event of the day has to be the OpenID UX (User Experience) Summit, hosted at the Facebook headquarters. The most discussed moment of the day will surely be the presentation by Comcast's Plaxo team.

January 29, 2009

Google and Plaxo Combine OpenID and OAuth for Improved Useability

As a concept, OpenID has shown a great deal of potential. But that potential has often been hamstrung by the series of hurdles through which OpenID users have been required to jump in order to use their credentials.

January 29, 2009

OpenID and OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard.

January 12, 2009

Flex Your Networking Skills

10 tips to building, maintaining, and using your professional network in a job search.

December 30, 2008

OpenID Foundation Board Election Results Announced

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big proponents of the Open Stack. As such, we've been encouraging you to participate in the OpenID Foundation Board elections, throughout December. Hopefully, you got the chance to participate, because the elections have come to a close. The OpenID Foundation has announced its new Board.

December 29, 2008

6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now

Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds with their utility and ingenuity and become must-haves.