Plaxo Wins Best Consumer Productivity Service at 2005 Codie Awards

May 26, 2005 (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) — Plaxo™, Inc., creator of the fastest-growing consumer Internet service for updating and accessing contact information, today announced that its flagship product, Plaxo, was named Best Consumer Productivity Service at the 20th annual Codie Awards ceremony. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) awarded Plaxo a Codie Award based on Plaxo’s superior ability to most effectively assists individuals in a personal task.

A complete list of winners can be found at http://www.siia.net/codies/2005/winners.asp.

Ken Wasch, President of SIIA, said, “SIIA congratulates Plaxo, Inc. on winning a 2005 Codie Award in a category with first-rate competition. Plaxo continues to prove its preeminence in the consumer service market.”

This year over 800 companies submitted more than 1,000 nominations. The Codie Awards is the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry. The award finalists are judged in two extensive rounds of reviews — first by representatives from the software trade press, mainstream technology writers and experts in education technology, and finally by voting members of SIIA, the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry.

“Plaxo holds the Codie Awards in the highest regard because winners are chosen by our peers and industry experts,” said Todd Masonis, co-founder and vice president of products for Plaxo. “To be selected as one the best software solutions for the second year in a row is truly an honor.”

Plaxo is a free service that works with Microsoft’s Outlook and Outlook Express email programs to automate the previously arduous task of keeping contact information current. Today, with members in nearly every country, Plaxo helps to manage more than 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.

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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