March 18th, 2008

FanBox Listens To TechCrunch Commenters

On March 4 we wrote about FanBox being the new Plaxo in that the site regularly spammed users. Further the opt-out process for emails was unduly complicated to the point of being unusable. I was approached by FanBox’s PR firm last week who told me they wanted to line up a meeting with the CEO so they could put their story forward. I naturally presumed that I would be spun but to be fair… → Read More

March 4th, 2008

FanBox Is The New Plaxo

San Diego based FanBox from mobile solutions company SMS.ac offers a variety of services. From its front page it offers a reasonable web desktop package, complete with wordprocessing, IM and online storage. A social networking service is included, and the holding company sms.ac offers premium SMS services. It sounds like a run of the mill package, except that like Plaxo in the past, FanBox spams… → Read More