"Linksify is worth taking a look at.  With Plaxo having been acquired by Comcast, I have been uncomfortable with keeping my valuable information in their hands.  LinkedIn is becoming inflexible and way too involved.  I can no longer afford an Outlook crash and disaster.  After working with Linksify for a while now, I have decided to delete my Plaxo account and am using Linksify for all my contacts..."

"Linksify has announced that it has raised half a million dollars in seed funding from entrepreneur / angel investor Jon Fisher and the startup’s founder Tony Wu (a former business associate of Fisher).  The company is also launching its contact information sharing tool in beta today..."

"As networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn evolve, they’re becoming more social, more interactive, and more open to third-party developers.  But a new startup called Linksify wants to take users in the other direction — rather than creating new ways for you to interact with people, it’s stripped away most social networking features and instead focuses exclusively on contact management..."

"Essentially, it is an online resource that will empower you to interact with others such as colleagues, revealing only the amount of information that you wish to reveal.  If you want the person to know only your e-mail, that is possible...  ...When all is said and done, this is an inexpensive tool that will make your life much ordered and easy.  And is there a better name for an online address book than “Linksify”?"