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Mashuppacultcha Rules.
Mashup culture isn’t just for tech-geeks, YouTubers, and Google employees. Sometimes, it can actually enhance your life. And when two companies get together to mash their services up together, all because consumers spoke up and said it would make their lives more organized, it’s a thing of beauty.
LinkedIn and Plaxo have joined forces to allow Plaxo Members to sync their LinkedIn contacts with their Plaxo address book, effectively mashing their flagship products.
I’ve synced my two accounts, and it worked splendidly. I feel more organized and connected already.
While mashups have been around forever (Shakespeare, anyone?) the modern, corporate interpretation (Nike+Apple, TiVo+DirecTV), holds tremendous promise not just culturally, but financially.
Bonus points if you can tell me (in the comments, please) what the title of this post is a pop-culture reference to.
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Pixies’ “Subbacultcha”, of course.
Gold star for you, Jodi!
Crap I’m too late.
I would have totally gotten those extra points.
You’re so warm and fuzzy about PlaxoLinkedIn being mashable. Maybe you didn’t notice that they don’t have stable code for Thunderbird 1.5, and no stated plans about 2.0 which came out of Beta a few days ago.
Well, I use Outlook, and it works perfectly. So there.
Kidding. I didn’t notice Thunderbird incompatibility/instability because I don’t use Thunderbird. But if I did, and I had the same problems you’re having, I’d have issues as well.
But in concept, those two companies finding a way to work together does give me the warm-and-fuzzies.
Now if only they could get some Thunderbird stability - that would be really warm and fuzzy. I don’t have much tolerance for non-mozilla support. Even Microsoft’s Silverlight works in Firefox 2.0+.