Dare Obanjo explains where Robert Scoble missed the boat with Plaxo:

There is a key difference between Robert taking my personal information I shared with him on Facebook and importing into Outlook versus importing it into Plaxo Pulse . In the former case, Robert is taking data I shared with him and viewing it in a different application. In the latter case, Robert is additionally sharing my personal details with a corporate entity; Plaxo, Inc . This is an entity that is synonymous with spam and at the time of writing this post there 209,000 hits returned for a search for "Plaxo Spam" on the Google search engine . This is the key difference between Robert importing my personal details into Outlook and importing it into Plaxo Pulse .

I still say that Scoble let himself het pwned.

Technorati Tags: social media, privacy