Comments on: Plaxo’s amazing growth is attributed to… (drum roll) http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/ Just another JASONAlba weblog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lillian http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-4434 Lillian Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:49:52 +0000 http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/#comment-4434 Spam is the stuff that isn't sent on purpose. A friend request or a connection request is sent on purpose. Thus, all the Plaxo spam was spam because the people supposedly sending them weren't doing it on purpose. Y'all can debate the lovely graph all night if you like, but Plaxo was still spam when it did that. Spam is the stuff that isn’t sent on purpose. A friend request or a connection request is sent on purpose. Thus, all the Plaxo spam was spam because the people supposedly sending them weren’t doing it on purpose. Y’all can debate the lovely graph all night if you like, but Plaxo was still spam when it did that.

]]> By: John McCrea http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-3203 John McCrea Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:51:02 +0000 http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/#comment-3203 Jason, Thanks for your interest in the story behind the story. The reality is that the Pulse "social graph" grows the same way any other social network does, through a combination of people hearing about the service, checking it out, recommending it to others, asking people they know to connect with them. If you consider "friend" requests on Facebook to be spam, or "connection" requests on LinkedIn to be spam, I think the majority would disagree. It is the nature of social networking. The Google OpenSocial announcement got a wave of people re-evaluating Plaxo and Pulse, which kicked off a sustained wave of connection activity. Jason,

Thanks for your interest in the story behind the story. The reality is that the Pulse “social graph” grows the same way any other social network does, through a combination of people hearing about the service, checking it out, recommending it to others, asking people they know to connect with them. If you consider “friend” requests on Facebook to be spam, or “connection” requests on LinkedIn to be spam, I think the majority would disagree. It is the nature of social networking. The Google OpenSocial announcement got a wave of people re-evaluating Plaxo and Pulse, which kicked off a sustained wave of connection activity.

]]> By: Robert Merrill http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-3202 Robert Merrill Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:09:52 +0000 http://jasonalba.com/2007/11/19/plaxos-amazing-growth-is-attributed-to-drum-roll/#comment-3202 "tre-cool"?? Dude, you are the lexiconoclastic GURU! Thanks for the little nuggests of juicy new words. You're the man. Oh, and yeah, right after Open Social I was getting SPAMMED like crazy too. One of the spammers was YOU (or someone pretending to BE you) which is very interesting given that you would now write a post like this. Hmmm. “tre-cool”??

Dude, you are the lexiconoclastic GURU! Thanks for the little nuggests of juicy new words. You’re the man.

Oh, and yeah, right after Open Social I was getting SPAMMED like crazy too. One of the spammers was YOU (or someone pretending to BE you) which is very interesting given that you would now write a post like this.

Hmmm.

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