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How to edit Plaxo privacy settings

I've more than once had difficulties finding where on Plaxo I'm supposed to edit the privacy settings. Plaxo is a primarily work-oriented profile/ social networking site like LinkedIn So here's a quick note to those that have the same difficulty. Go to the Plaxo homepage Click the My Profile menu Click the About Me tab Navigate down to the Websites section Click 'Edit this section' Click on the website name to edit privacy settings N.B. If you don't see the 'Edit this section' link, go to the top of your profile and there should be an 'Edit this section' link visible there. Then go back down to the Websites section. These websites don't seem to realise how badly their navigation sucks for people that don't use their website on a regular basis.

iPhone app BlogPress test

OK, just giving the iPhone app BlogPress a quick test. It costs 2 euro something, but that didn't put me off giving it a try. I'm using it for this blog, but it supports plenty of other blog formats. Google BlogPress for more info. It supports horizontal typing on my iPhone with iPhoneOS 3.0 (3.0.1 firmware) not sure about older iPhone firmwares. That makes typing a 2-thumbed affair at least. I'd prefer a physical keyboard *cough* but that's a whole different story :-) So now I'll add a couple of tags and see how this looks on the blog! Oh, and here's a link of course just to test that out too. http://twitter.com/gigajosh Btw, I forgot to mention that when you choose a Blogger blog, BlogPress lets you choose which of your Blogger blogs you want to use, as you'd expect. Anyway that all went fine, bar a couple of login errors. So now I've got 2 of my Blogger blogs hooked up on BlpgPress :-) Do I really continue to use it long term? That's always the bi