If you've followed our blog, you know that at Plaxo we love to periodically do all-day Hackathons, which we call Haxo days. By now we've created a ton of cool little features and products, but so far we have not done a good job of getting them into the hands of our users. It's often a lot of work to take a side project and fully integrate it with our existing code and UI, but many of the things we've built could be perfectly useful on their own. We just haven't had the right home for them. Until now.

Starting today, we've got a new Plaxo Labs site, where we'll be putting a bunch of projects we cooked up in our spare time that we want to share. Some are rougher than others, but they're all far enough along that we'd love you to play with them and let us know what you think.

To kick things off, we've released the following five projects to Plaxo Labs:

• A new-and-improved Plaxo WAP site for mobile phones (like our first WAP version, this project started as a passionate side project by one of our engineers and quickly turned into a full-featured product)


• A plaxo search page for quick lookup of all your Plaxo data, which can also be added as a search plugin in IE7 and Firefox


• Plaxanoid: the classic game with a Plaxo twist (this was one of our engineer's way of teaching himself JavaScript, and it definitely brought company productivity to a halt for at least a day as we all started playing it)


• A map view of your entire address book--it can take a while to load, but it's a really interesting new way to see all the people you know


• A downloadable troubleshooter for Outlook that can automatically diagnose many of the common connectivity problems our customer support team normally deals with

This is just the start--now that all our Haxo projects have an easy place to get released, expect to see a bunch more things on labs in the near future. For each project, we've set up a discussion group and email address for feedback--please let us know what you think and what you'd like to see!

--Joseph Smarr, Architect and Haxo enthusiast

If you've followed our blog, you know that at Plaxo we love to periodically do all-day Hackathons, which we call Haxo days. By now we've created a ton of cool little features and products, but so far we have not done a good job of getting them into the hands of our users. It's often a lot of work to take a side project and fully integrate it with our existing code and UI, but many of the things we've built could be perfectly useful on their own. We just haven't had the right home for them. Until now. Starting today, we've got a new Plaxo Labs site, where we'll be putting a bunch of projects we cooked up in our spare time that we want to share. Some are rougher than others, but they're all far enough along that we'd love you to play with them and let us know what you think. To kick things off, we've released the following five projects to Plaxo Labs:

• A new-and-improved Plaxo WAP site for mobile phones (like our first WAP version, this project started as a passionate side project by one of our engineers and quickly turned into a full-featured product)
• A plaxo search page for quick lookup of all your Plaxo data, which can also be added as a search plugin in IE7 and Firefox
• Plaxanoid: the classic game with a Plaxo twist (this was one of our engineer's way of teaching himself JavaScript, and it definitely brought company productivity to a halt for at least a day as we all started playing it)
• A map view of your entire address book--it can take a while to load, but it's a really interesting new way to see all the people you know
• A downloadable troubleshooter for Outlook that can automatically diagnose many of the common connectivity problems our customer support team normally deals with

This is just the start--now that all our Haxo projects have an easy place to get released, expect to see a bunch more things on labs in the near future. For each project, we've set up a discussion group and email address for feedback--please let us know what you think and what you'd like to see! --Joseph Smarr, Architect and Haxo enthusiast