Of course, the big buzz at this year's CES was all about the other announcement, which I'm sure was galling to the organizers and to Bill Gates, who may be a lot richer, but will never be as “cool” as Mr. Jobs.
The big thing that struck me was not so much the endless big screen TVs, although they certainly made them loud enough. Nor the autograph signings by Hulk Hogan at one of the booths, although there was a loooooong line of people waiting for them!
The theme of this year's show seemed to be about integration and synchronization: helping people deal with an ever-growing list of devices in their homes, cars, offices, and now on their bodies, by making their music, video, and personal information accessible everywhere. tying your video, audio, computer, phone, and everything else together and keeping them all in sync. Moxi had a cool app to enable a next gen DVR, where you can schedule recordings over the Internet on your calendar. Vtech had some very cool cordless phones that allow you to access your address book on your cordless phone.
Let's hope this push towards more integration works. We all have way too many devices, and every day add a new one. If they all worked together, that'd be a good thing all around.
--Swami
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Hi Paul,
We've got a version for Outlook 2007 and Outlook versions running on Vista now:
http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2007/02/plaxo_now_suppo_1.html
We aren't supporting Windows Mail on Vista just yet, but we're working on it!
Regardless of what version of Outlook/Windows you're running, your info will always be safe on Plaxo and available via the web. We're always working hard to make sure you can get your info on all new versions of Outlook and Windows; please do let us know if you give the latest version a try and run into any issues.
Thanks!
This sounds great - in theory. But there's a little bit of a credibility gap when you talk about integration, since Office 2007 (including Outlook 2007) will be released in two weeks, yet there's not even a beta for Plaxo available for it. (Yeah, I've seen the notices in the forum. They keep saying, we're working on it, and it's coming soon...)
In fact, I'm a little hesitant to upgrade to a Plaxo premium account, as I'm uncomfortable with the idea that a major upgrade to my personal communication software could be made, and I could lose access to my information, even if temporarily. The ability to have that information is invaluable to my work; the spectre of not having it available is unsettling.