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Keepm Stores All Your Contacts in One Place
Posted by Adam Pash at 1:00 PM on April 15, 2008
Store all of your online contacts in one place with web application Keepm. If you've run the gamut of popular email applications across the years, chances are you may have lost track of a few contacts along the way. Keepm imports your contacts from popular applications like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL, Linked In, as well as from vCards or Outlook. When you need to search for a contact, you can go straight to Keepm and be comfortable knowing that the information you need is there regardless of where you originally created that contact. You can also export your contacts from Keepm at any time as vCards or a CSV file, which means it would at the very least work well to consolidate and export your contacts. Keepm does require you to hand over your username and password on the sites you want to import contacts from, but they do not store your login info on their servers.
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rogun64
Posted 2:57 PM 15/4/08
I would be afraid that I'm giving out unlisted numbers, etc. Their privacy policy seems acceptable, but all too often there's a loop-hole in there somewhere.
rogun64
VizionQuest
Posted 2:05 PM 15/4/08
How does this compare to Plaxo?
[www.plaxo.com]"
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VizionQuest
stepnet
Posted 3:43 PM 15/4/08
Can't we just wait till plaxo (or whoever) starts working with google's contact api?
stepnet
oneiros
Posted 5:21 PM 15/4/08
Hmmn; very restrictive, US-centric address format. No thanks...
oneiros
Scott Wegner
Posted 10:52 PM 15/4/08
I've heard problems with Plaxo nagging your contacts to join-- has anyone seen this with Keepm?
Also, I'm still really looking for a good syncing solution for contacts. Is there a service out there that supports LDAP, or a similar protocol for contacts?
--Scott
Scott Wegner
jwelshjr
Posted 10:51 PM 15/4/08
jwelshjr
SabrinaFaire
Posted 11:54 PM 15/4/08
@VizionQuest: Poorly to be honest. Plaxo is much better. I've tried Keepm, and it doesn't import well at all. You can import from Gmail (if Gmail had a good contacts set up I would just stick with that), Vcards (I've never gotten this to actually work right), or Outlook (again I can't get it to work right but I think this is my Outlook install). I think it's a great idea but they need to update it to make it work a bit better. Plaxo is really too "heavy" for me, but it works. Sort of. It's now blocked by my work servers which renders it useless for me. BUT Plaxo only sends out nags to your contacts if you tell it to do so. I'm always on the lookout for a better contact manager and am open to suggestions!
SabrinaFaire
jwelshjr
Posted 11:46 PM 15/4/08
jwelshjr
Ankit
Posted 12:56 AM 16/4/08
I have been trying to find a good solution for managing contacts for years now. I have tried Outlook, Plaxo, GMail, spreadsheets, text files, Word document, Access database, and none have met my needs. Recently, I discovered the Windows Contacts in Windows Vista which is quite good. Though it handles my needs well (international addresses, notes, categories, etc.), what is missing is a way for certain elements to be linked - i.e., if I enter a spouse for a contact and that spouse has a separate entry in my contact lists, the two should be linked. Also, the contacts should be accessible off-line which is what trumps Windows Contacts over GMail Contacts.
If you have not tried Windows Contacts, I would urge you to try it. Any one else have any other suggestions where the linking of related contacts works like it should?
Ankit
VizionQuest
Posted 2:54 AM 16/4/08
@SabrinaFaire: Thanks for your insight and for clearing that up. I'm gonaa stick with Plaxo :-)
VizionQuest
mapa3m
Posted 12:40 AM 16/4/08
Unicode support is very flaky, names in UTF-8 are truncated to three characters. That's a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned.
mapa3m
dereko
Posted 12:13 AM 16/4/08
the US centric address format is really annoying. The likes of plaxto or google i think will be to big for these guys to really compete.
dereko
nandayo
Posted 5:49 AM 16/4/08
>> Keepm does require you to
>> hand over your username
>> and password on the sites
>> you want to import contacts
>> from, but they do not store
>> your login info on their servers.
Have you ever been at their data center(s)?
Every company stores data on their servers. *Maybe* in an encrypted way, but they have to.
Imagine, somehow tries to hack a Gmail account using Keepm... of course Keepm and any other serious company would want to prove that it's been a customer and not Keepm...
I don't give my password to my best friend, why should I trust a COMPANY?
:o
nandayo
Scott Wegner
Posted 8:03 AM 16/4/08
@jwelshjr: Wow, good find! I wonder why I've never heard of this before-- is it new? I'm going to give it a try this weekend.
--Scott
Scott Wegner
modeling22
Posted 8:16 PM 16/4/08
modeling22