11 Comments

1. Shaun Trennery Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

   There needs to be a competition board that approves deals like this.

2. Ryan Massie Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

   Would this be Facebook’s first acquisition since Parakey last year?

   If it’s true, Facebook may do well to let Plaxo keep it’s branding since as far as I know, people still generally scoff at the idea of using Facebook for business.

3. Phil Parlock Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

   The companies may well have been chatting about time the forbidden script came crawling, which might’ve led to some interesting discussions among the deal teams.

4. Eric Eldon Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   I think I heard that some of the Facebook engineers were impressed by Plaxo’s script ;)

5. Critical_ Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I am leaning towards Phil Parlock’s explanation. It seems unreasonable from a traffic and user crossover standpoint for Facebook to buy out Plaxo. Could this be a way to get control of Address Book 2.0 quickly and stop future pretenders to the Plaxo throne?

6. Pete Lacis Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

   Deals like that don’t move so quickly. Ironic, yes….but also a coincidence for sure.

7. listen_to_robert_scoble Says:
   January 15th, 2008 at 2:22 am

   Plaxo has been sending a lot of spam since last one month. Almost everyday I get at least 10 emails saying that so and so stranger added me as a business connection on Plaxo.
   Is facebook getting into ’spam everyone for $$$” business? How else will they justify their $15B valuation ;)

8. Robert Scoble Says:
   January 15th, 2008 at 2:26 am

   That’s not spam, technically. You can sign onto Plaxo and turn that notification email off. Technically we call those kinds of emails “Bacn”, not spam.

9. Sebastian Moser Says:
   January 15th, 2008 at 2:52 am

   I highly doubt this is the case.

   Facebook is too small to have two brands and develop them separately. And buying Plaxo just to destroy them in the end would be pretty dumb.

   I still expect them to use the hundreds of millions of new cash to acquire smaller social networking-start-ups in Europe, in the below-10-million-range.

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