Plaxo has irked me for some time with its flaky sync capabilities when used across multiple devices. Now, to be fair, I know Plaxo is not really intended to be used across multiple devices, so this is forgivable – but here is the thing… how do you maintain your address book, calendar, tasks and notes across every device you own? Not just the office PC and home PC – and laptop too – but also the cell phone and even the iPod?
Easy. Use Funambol.
It is a complete sync solution which supports OTA sync (thats a network based sync when on the road!) and has modules for many PIM platforms like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Outlook, Palm and iPod. Its cross platform (Java) core allows the Sync server to be run on just about anything and it supports integration with some heavyweight platforms like Domino, LDAP, Allora, Sugar and Kolab. It also has a Web Service SDK so its easy(ish) to adapt it to any PIM-style platform (like VersionOne burndown tasks for example!)
I have started using Funabol for Pixolüt as a trial and its already saved me from Plaxo duplcate hell once this week and its ability to sync with multiple PIM applications using different sync strategies is just fantastic.
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