@gooch I've been aware of Plaxo for quite some time but it's only now that I'm curious to try it out. There are two reasons:
1. The new Pulse feature looks interesting.
2. I didn't realize until their relaunch a couple of months ago that Plaxo now syncs with Outlook.
The second point is critical because other than my phone (which syncs with Outlook), I only have one copy of my entire address book -- and that's on the Outlook installed on my aging home PC.
I'm hoping Plaxo can serve as an online backup of my data, which I can access from any machine with an Internet connection. This way, I can resync with a fresh installation of Outlook if my local PC copy should crash. 8-)