You Need Central Online Data Storage, No Inconsistency and Redundancy
A lot of free email providers such as hotmail and Gmail provide you a contact address book to store your contact's essential information.
Microsoft's new released Office Live declares to be able to synchronize with Outlook contact and other features.
To synchronize data you have to jump from one application to another one, and get baffled with what you have done and what haven't.
Data synchronization adds more work on you.
What is worse, we don't have a central place that we can manage all our data, from contact to blogs, and all data is linked seamlessly.
Contact management is much more than managing an address book.
Most of your activities involve both yourself and your contacts.
Let's say, you want to make an appointment with your friend Tom.
Instead of typing Tom into the appointment interface, you want the appointment know that Tom is the Tom in your Contact List.
You don't want to type duplicate information about Tom into the appointment details again.
Someday, when Tom notifies you that his cell phone number is changed, you will definitely hate to find all Toms in your data system and modify his cell phone number one by one.
With the design of keeping only one data source and managing all your personal information [http://www.
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Free email providers link contact's email addresses to their email functions.
Some providers such as Microsoft are launching social networking features upon the hotmail contact list.
However, we need a simple, consistent environment to manage all of our personal information, including contact, email, task, appointment, event, notes, documents, photos, videos, music, blogs, RSS feeds, favorite links and etc.
We need an online space to manage the above information, and the same time we can easily publish whatever we want to share with the public.
Microsoft's new released Office Live declares to be able to synchronize with Outlook contact and other features.
To synchronize data you have to jump from one application to another one, and get baffled with what you have done and what haven't.
Data synchronization adds more work on you.
What is worse, we don't have a central place that we can manage all our data, from contact to blogs, and all data is linked seamlessly.
Contact management is much more than managing an address book.
Most of your activities involve both yourself and your contacts.
Let's say, you want to make an appointment with your friend Tom.
Instead of typing Tom into the appointment interface, you want the appointment know that Tom is the Tom in your Contact List.
You don't want to type duplicate information about Tom into the appointment details again.
Someday, when Tom notifies you that his cell phone number is changed, you will definitely hate to find all Toms in your data system and modify his cell phone number one by one.
With the design of keeping only one data source and managing all your personal information [http://www.
primeobjects.
com/company/pim.
aspx?LCID=1033] in one platform, I guarantee you will love that you only need to go to the Contact Management, update the information, and all the other places will get the latest data.
Free email providers link contact's email addresses to their email functions.
Some providers such as Microsoft are launching social networking features upon the hotmail contact list.
However, we need a simple, consistent environment to manage all of our personal information, including contact, email, task, appointment, event, notes, documents, photos, videos, music, blogs, RSS feeds, favorite links and etc.
We need an online space to manage the above information, and the same time we can easily publish whatever we want to share with the public.
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