This must be incredibly funny to anyone who knows me well — getting a blog was one of the things I said I’d never do. But I also thought the whole “web” thing was a fad too, so looks like I’m just a little slow 
So why now? When we started Plaxo, we took the classic engineer mentality: no marketing — let the product speak for itself. Turns out this was a phenomenally bad idea and it looked like we were hiding something. Since then, we’ve grown, strengthened our product, and attracted a loyal userbase of more than 10 million members. However, we still haven’t done a great job letting people know what it is we do exactly or how we make money. This blog is a tiny step in fixing that.
So stayed tuned; I’ll try to write something interesting. And many thanks to Mark Jen for the hosting and the prodding.