Comments on: Personal Relationship Manager

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:14:42 +0000

Great summary of an application that I have been looking for years. I am not a developer, but have been working on developing something in Oracle APEX for my own use. Until then, jibberjobber is a close second.

By: Here Comes Trouble: Conversation Threading - GigaOM

Here Comes Trouble: Conversation Threading - GigaOM — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:00:50 +0000

[...] work something like CRM for personal relationships. Tristan Louis offers a detailed wish list in his blog post describing a Personal Relationship Manager. Importantly, trust and the inflexible nature of the telephone network make AT&T et al. poor [...]

By: Tristan Louis

Tristan Louis — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:02:57 +0000

By what I’ve seen of OpenSocial, it wouldn’t do the trick. It might cover some of the linkages but not the end of end…

By: Howard Greenstein

Howard Greenstein — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:57:19 +0000

Great Job capturing this. Would openSocial help? As I have most of this data between plaxo, Google apps, and open things like Wordpress, it seems it should be accessible (FB is an obvious exception).
To Alec’s point, no, I want to own this data conglomeration – but parts of the data itself will be in the network.

By: Alec

Alec — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:17:23 +0000

I wouldn’t trust my own and my friends (even more so) data (conglomerated) to any online service. Especially one with a name like Plaxo (it sounds more like pharmaceuticals than anything else).

I don’t think this solution exists – will exist – something like the perfect PDA (think Palm), this is just a chimera of our imagination.

As soon as we think we can touch it, it will be gone. In a mist of spam and privacy violations.

By: Philip Wilkinson

Philip Wilkinson — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:53:25 +0000

Wasn’t this the concept being Plaxo when it first started out?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:05:29 +0000

If you find one let me know! I’ve been collecting addresses and contacts in various formats for years, but it is just beginning to get critical. As much as possible I try and keep things up to date in Outlook as that’s where I email from and sync the rest to that. I use the ‘Contacts’ field in tasks as much as possible and then use the ‘Activities’ tab in Contacts to see when and how I have contacted people. But it doesn’t cover all bases – if only Microsoft had thought far enough ahead to set the Journal function up properly.You can set Skype up to use the Journal function – but that doesn’t work with a Skype-out call.

By: Tristan Louis

Tristan Louis — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:00:38 +0000

feld.comfeld.comSeems there are some issues with my trackbacks but check out Brad Feld's answer to this which highlights that I forgot to include blog comments into the overall view. It's definitely something that would need to go in there too...

By: Charles Hudson

Charles Hudson — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:32:40 +0000

Very nice post on this topic. I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about the ideal contact management systems, most of which use email as the seed. I had high hopes that Highrise would deliver on this promise, but it did not.

If you want to check out some of my posts, you can see most of them here: http://www.charleshudson.net/?cat=7