Plaxo announced by email on 6 July that they will charge for Outlook contact synchronisation as a paid for feature $at 59.95 as part of Plaxo Premium http://www.plaxo.com/downloads/outlook_premium? . In the email they say "This change will allow us to continue to invest in the development and support of this valuable (but high-cost) feature."

As our readers will know we have always said that a free cloud based server model is unsustainable for contact and identity management.

Of course the only way to offer a low cost sustainable service is to synchronise P2P and avoid mediation by servers. Not only does this eliminate server traffic it also puts the user back in control of their contact information.

We want to roll out a robust platform for this before extending our business.

Please keep using Glynx, give us your feedback and spread the word on a superior way to manage your contact information.