Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce Robert Scoble to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and why you’ll want to try it out.

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At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook hold pole position?

Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.

Plaxo’s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts (and follow your social network based on such) with ...

Wrestling with multiple address books? ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky shows how to consolidate your contacts. This week’s link: Plaxo, a free web service for updating and maintaining the information in your address book.

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