A very significant update to Plaxo Pulse is now available. Quoting from the Plaxo Blog:
So how is Pulse different?
Your friends and family are creating great online content everyday: photos, videos, restaurant reviews, and a lot more. The problem is that it’s scattered over hundreds of sites and you have no idea when it gets updated. Pulse is a social network for your REAL life. When you connect to someone, you categorize them as a friend, family member, or in your business network. You tell us which sites you already use, and through the power of RSS and APIs we’ll pull in whatever you update and share it with who you tell us to (your family, your real friends, or your business network)
I’ve only tinkered it with it a little this morning, but will be spending a good bit of time on it this week getting to know all of its new features. One area where it seems to me to beat all the other social networks is its ability to congregate your other “online stuff” in one place, as hinted at by this snapshot:
And, you can choose what group of folks to share this with: none, public, friends, family, business associates.
Looks to me like this can really give Plaxo a heads up on FaceBook. If you would like to connect to me on Plaxo Pulse, send me an email (brucekeener at gmail.com) and I will send an invite to you.