So I’ve finally gotten off my lazy butt and created a new blog. Rose and I will both be blogging at http://roseandsnail.com. If you’re subscribed on my FeedBurner feed, it should already be picking up my new entries over there. If not, head on over and get on my new feed!
See you there 
Heard about Weewar through some of my feeds and got invited to their beta today! So many great ideas in there Best parts:
Here’s a screenshot of the game in action, but you can basically just show up to watch games live at http://weewar.com/ (click on the “view game” links in the Weewar live ticker)
I’m not sure how many invites I have, but if you want one, drop me a comment!
Hey, I was on news.com again (no no, this isn’t like last time)
Haiping (a long time colleague of mine and now an engineer at Facebook) is standing behind me. I wonder why they didn’t get our names to add to the picture caption.
Well, it’s been 2 years and almost 3 months since I joined Plaxo and this Friday I’ll be moving on. Over the past two years, we’ve done a ton of stuff at Plaxo, including:
I’ve really enjoyed my time at Plaxo - I’ve learned a lot, shipped a ton of product, and worked with amazing people. 
As for my next gig, I’ll be joining my good friend Terry over at Tagged. There’s a ton of stuff to do over there - and since they’re in PHP/Java, I can probably jump in and do some coding too . Lunch 2.0 up in SF here we come!
So… should I continue writing my blog here at Plaxoed? I suppose it is past tense, so it could fit as I move on after Plaxo. What do you guys think?
In my new condo up in San Francisco, we got fliers to sign up for a high speed internet service called Webpass that claimed synchronous 45Mbps for about $30 / month if you pre-pay annually. Too good to be true? Well, I got it setup, paid $350 for the year, and here’s what speedtest.net says:
And that’s through a Linksys router. When I hook up my computer straight to the tap it’s even faster!
The technician told me that what they’re doing is dropping a T3 line straight to the building and all the residents signed up for the service are sharing it. He told me there are currently only about 20 people from my building signed up, so that means I’m probably getting a T3 all to myself most of the time. San Francisco rocks!
For more info, head on over to http://www.lunch20.com. Everyone’s invited, we’ve got a few events coming up: one next week and one in June.
Also, if you’d like to host an event, contact me
Whew, there’s a whole lot of stuff going on at Plaxo. Here’s a recap:
One of my personal favorite labs features is Plaxo Search. Basically, you sign-in (check “Remember me on this computer” if you’re on a personal machine) and you get a Google-like interface to search for anything you have in your Plaxo account. You can also hook it up to your browser’s search box in the top right (if you have IE7 or Firefox). It looks like this:
Give it a try; it’s the fastest way to get access to your contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes by far!
Pete’s sister was taking a business communications class and one day, he turned to me and said that I was in her textbook and they were talking about me in lecture. Nice! I wonder what they had to say
She’s visiting Pete this weekend and she brought the book along. It’s called Business Communication, Building Critical Skills, and it’s written by Kitty O. Locker (of Ohio State booooo 
) and Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek.
It’s only a quick reference in the book, but I am curious to know when people are discussing my story in class. If you’re a professor or if you’re a student in a class about this stuff, let me know; I’m always happy to discuss these things
On the Plaxo front, we’re testing out an early release of Plaxo Mobile 3.0, a new WAP access product (direct link). Built on WAP 2.0/XHTML, this app allows you to get access to all your Plaxo contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from the web browser on your mobile phone. If you already have a Plaxo account and you can’t wait, just point your mobile browser to http://labs.plaxo.com/mobile.
This means you can sync your Outlook, Mac, Thunderbird, or Yahoo! address books to Plaxo and then access it on your mobile phone. (Well, you’ll still have to pay for wireless internet charges, but come’on, don’t you have an unlimited data plan on your cell phone by now?)
If you’ve got questions, run into trouble while trying it out, or want to give feedback, please feel free to contact me, join our Google Group, or e-mail the team at labs-mobile@plaxo.com.
After using Yahoo Mail Beta for over a year, and Windows Live Mail for a little bit before that, I’ve decided to switch back to GMail.
I had some trouble with GMail almost two years ago and I decided to try out Windows Live Mail Beta (new at that time). I then had some trouble with Windows Live Mail and got an invite to Yahoo Mail Beta, so I switched over to that.
Lately, I’ve been having trouble with Yahoo Mail Beta so I looked around again to find the best webmail solution and it does certainly seem that GMail is the front runner. Here’s how GMail won me over:
While some of the webmail solutions have some of these features I’ve just listed, only GMail seems to have them all.
Hi, my name is Mark Jen. I work for Plaxo. I used to work for Google and before that, I worked for Microsoft. The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions. Content published here is not read or approved by Plaxo before it is posted and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Plaxo. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here. Enjoy!
