I dislike Plaxo. Just as OpenOffice is what I look at as an example of the worst of Open Source, Plaxo is my posterchild example of OpenID. It adds nothing. Fi

I dislike Plaxo. Just as OpenOffice is what I look at as an example of the worst of Open Source, Plaxo is my posterchild example of OpenID. It adds nothing. First it was an address book in the midst of a sea of similar address books. It added OpenID to gain an "edge" and it got publicity despite its still having a meaningless featurelist. Plaxo 3 added Pulse, which is just a watered-down FriendFeed, which is a pretty watered-down site to begin with. It's ugly - it was obviously design-by-committee, which made it incredibly harmless and hideously generic - it adds nothing, and it has uglier ads than most of the sites it's ripping off. The name is terrible. It's the ultimate example of the meaningless short name.