Explaining Reality to Scoble
Dare Obanjo explains where Robert Scoble missed the boat with Plaxo:
There is a key difference between Robert taking my personal information I shared with him on Facebook and importing into Outlook versus importing it into Plaxo Pulse . In the former case, Robert is taking data I shared with him and viewing it in a different application. In the latter case, Robert is additionally sharing my personal details with a corporate entity; Plaxo, Inc . This is an entity that is synonymous with spam and at the time of writing this post there 209,000 hits returned for a search for "Plaxo Spam" on the Google search engine . This is the key difference between Robert importing my personal details into Outlook and importing it into Plaxo Pulse .
I still say that Scoble let himself get pwned.
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Comments
Scoble's at Fault Here
[Rogers Cadenhead] January 7, 2008 10:03:05.153
Scoble's been around long enough that he should know not to feed email addresses to a company like Plaxo. A lot of people get seriously pissed off if you reveal their email address to a web site. I did it once back when Six Degrees was around, and a pal went nuts because he knew it would lead to him getting more spam. Scoble did it to several thousand people.