Plaxo 1.4 Released

Today we have officially released the version 1.4 of Plaxo Contacts. You can download it from www.plaxo.com/downloads, or if you are an existing user, you will be updated early next year. I'm very excited about this release as it fixes a number of long standing bugs in our synchronization engine. I'm proud to say that the most sophisticated sync product on the Internet is now even better! Specifically, we've made the following improvements:

Folder Support - Plaxo now allows you to upload/manage your contacts on a folder basis. This means that you can ignore folders, change the mappings between local folders and server folders, and basically have more control over what Plaxo is doing. Before 1.4, Plaxo stored your contacts in a flat list, which isn't a sophisticated enough model to allow for good computer-to-computer sync.

New Sync Architecture - Most of the synchronization code has been rewritten, so Plaxo is now much more precise about the way it handles contacts. Pre-1.4, there was a lot of indeterminism about when Plaxo would notice changes and how those changes would get to the server.

Merge - Merge has been completely rewritten in 1.4. You should (almost never) see the dreaded merge dialog, which could result in all sorts of havoc.

These are just the big things. There are a number of minor bug fixes and little features here and there. If you have tried Plaxo in the past to synchronize multiple computers, or as your web address book, you should see remarkable improvements in 1.4. Please try it out and let us know what you think.