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Mashup Roundup

Explored the mashups tonight: Trading cards, okay. Flickr mapping one, okay. But I did come across one that won a mashup award (found the link through Wikipedia page): Plaxo 3.0. Now this sounds useful! It is a sync-ing (sp?) tool that unites all your calendars and contacts from Outlook, Google, Yahoo, etc. so that if you change something in one service, it's changed in all of them. It also allows you to keep up with all your contacts' info as they post to their blogs or upload photos; you get an update, sort of like a feed reader that lets you know when your contacts have uploaded something new.

Honestly, though, I'm not that savvy yet and don't have any other services other than hotmail and outlook. Funny side note, though, about my tech-savvy family. My sister (26) told me that my brother (36) does have a facebook page--and on it he lists his age as 29!

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