Annoying contact service Plaxo has put itself on the block,
says TechCrunch's Mike Arrington. Mike doesn't have an asking price (
Mr. Sorkin at the NYT says up to $100 million), but does say that Plaxo has "transformed" itself from a hated spam monster into a mild mannered and interesting business social network." He also runs an email from a Plaxo marketing guy who tries to position the company as a cross between Facebook and LinkedIn.
Anyway. A reader points out the curious part about Plaxo's "for sale" effort -- it's using a shop called
Revolution Partners for M&A. Have you heard of Revolution? We hadn't, which certainly doesn't mean that they aren't capable. But given Plaxo's stats -- a 20 million user database, traffic that's shot up four-fold since November, etc -- you'd think a bevvy of heavy hitters would be vying for the business.