I noticed in my mailbox (flooding daily with hundreds of invites for all kinds of things) recently that the amount of invites for www.unyk.com is rising.

Unyk is basically a Plaxo without the extra social features but more thrustworthy in terms of “general stories of annoyed users” when you do a quick scan using google.

Will I use it? No. Not when I have all my contacts attached in Plaxo and I have to send everyone another note that I joined yet another auto-addressbook-updater. I’m getting almost a burn-out for trying to manage my social networks alone.

Plaxo manages the synchronization between my outlook and the outlook of my wife and basically it does that well (apart from the annoying double, triple or quadrupple birthday entries in my agenda).

The only reason why I would step over from Plaxo to another addressbook would be if they would support relational groups. So not a flat table of contacts but really “household A” where I can drag and drop the persons on who live there. Saves a lot of typing of addresses (e.g. company department Z) and is much easier to look at.