{"id":2118,"date":"2008-01-15T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/15\/facebook-plus-plaxo-crazy-delicious\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T08:39:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:39:04","slug":"facebook-plus-plaxo-crazy-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/15\/facebook-plus-plaxo-crazy-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook plus Plaxo: Crazy delicious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m even bothering with a post that isn&#8217;t about Apple, when the entire globe &#8212; perhaps even the universe &#8212; is holding its breath waiting for news, but I have to say that the Facebook-buying-Plaxo <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/01\/14\/facebook-buying-plaxo\/\">rumour<\/a> makes sense to me. I know that both Eric Eldon at VentureBeat and Mike Arrington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/01\/14\/plaxo-and-facebook-merger-rumors-false-so-far\/\">at TechCrunch<\/a> make a good case for why it might not happen, but I think it could.<\/p>\n<p>Eric notes &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/340451\/is-plaxo-ready-to-sell-to-facebook\">as does Valleywag<\/a> &#8212; that there is reportedly some bad blood between Facebook-backer Peter Thiel and Plaxo-backer Michael Moritz over some previous Silicon Valley deall, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/01\/14\/plaxo-and-facebook-merger-rumors-false-so-far\/\">Mike says<\/a> that the numbers behind Plaxo aren&#8217;t that attractive for Facebook, especially at the $200-million valuation the site is looking for.<\/p>\n<p>That may all be true, but I tend to agree with Henry Blodget on this one: adding the features of Plaxo, which allows users to import contact data from all kinds of different services, would make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/01\/facebook-for-plaxo-valley-in-uproar.html\">a lot of sense<\/a> for Facebook, and even at $200-million it would be cheap given the (theoretical) $15-billion valuation Facebook has. Why not do it? I can&#8217;t see a tiff between Thiel and Moritz holding back an idea if it makes sense.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m even bothering with a post that isn&#8217;t about Apple, when the entire globe &#8212; perhaps even the universe &#8212; is holding its breath waiting for news, but I have to say that the Facebook-buying-Plaxo rumour makes sense to me. I know that both Eric Eldon at VentureBeat and Mike Arrington &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/15\/facebook-plus-plaxo-crazy-delicious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook plus Plaxo: Crazy delicious?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}