Five million people worldwide now trust Plaxo as personal and professional contact information hub

Company Surpasses Major Milestone, Continues to Develop New Services Designed to Make Hectic Lives More Manageable

January 25, 2005 (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) — Plaxo, Inc., creator of the fastest-growing consumer Internet service for updating and accessing contact information, today announced that it is the trusted method for staying connected to friends, family and business associates for more than five million people worldwide. Plaxo has become widely popular in the time since the service was first released in beta in November 2002—adding an average of 20,000 new users every day—due to the service’s ease-of-use and simplicity.

Plaxo is a free service that works with Microsoft’s Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail programs to automate the previously arduous task of keeping contact information current. Today, with members in nearly every country, Plaxo helps to manage over one billion contacts. As the service grows, people often find that their friends and colleagues are already members, creating an interconnected network of people whose contact information is always up-to-date through the seamless address book updating that occurs between linked members. Currently, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Canada have the highest number of Plaxo members. In the United States, Plaxo is most widely used in California, Texas, Florida, New York and Georgia.

“After responding to a colleague’s Plaxo update request, I decided to join the service. I found that more than half of my contacts were already using Plaxo—and also learned that much of the information I had was out-of-date,” said Kelly Robinson, owner, Infusion Pilates. “Plaxo enables me to keep in touch with an ever-increasing and changing list of clients, vendors, and suppliers, and access their contact information from anywhere in the world. I don’t know how I got along without it.”

Plaxo not only automatically updates contact information in Outlook and Outlook Express, but it also synchronizes users’ Outlook Calendar, Tasks, and Notes to ensure that people have access to the most current information anywhere, and at all times. In addition, Plaxo recently announced a set of paid-for services that allow members to clean and optimize their address books, and to access their Outlook Contacts, Calendar and Notes information through their WAP-enabled mobile phones and handheld wireless devices (see related announcement).

“Our team has worked hard to develop a reliable and trusted Internet service,” said Ben Golub, CEO, Plaxo, Inc. “Reaching five million users is a major milestone, but we are not resting there. The Plaxo team is committed to expanding our membership, services, and platform sets so that people can connect and stay connected to the people and information that matter to them.”

For more information or to download Plaxo, please visit: http://www.plaxo.com/

About Plaxo

Plaxo, Inc. (www.plaxo.com) is an innovative consumer technology company that provides a critical new layer to the Internet infrastructure: consumer services that accurately and seamlessly keep people’s data up-to-date and accessible. Plaxo is a privately held company funded by leading investment and technology firms — Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Harbinger Venture Management and Cisco Systems — as well as individual investors Ram Shriram and Tim Koogle. The company has raised almost $20 million since it was founded in 2001.

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