Plaxo Pulse, originally uploaded by Silverisdead.

I finally got around to checking out Plaxo’s new Pulse social network today. I’ve belonged to Plaxo since 2003, and I’m a big fan of its online address book. It’s too early to say what I think of Pulse, but the concept seems like a good one.

Your friends and family are creating great online content everyday: photos, videos, restaurant reviews, and a lot more. The problem is that it’s scattered over hundreds of sites and you have no idea when it gets updated. Pulse is a social network for your REAL life. When you connect to someone, you categorize them as a friend, family member, or in your business network. You tell us which sites you already use, and through the power of RSS and APIs we’ll pull in whatever you update and share it with who you tell us to (your family, your real friends, or your business network).

Here are the sites we have so far: Amazon.com, AOL Pictures, Del.icio.us, Digg, Flickr, Jaiku, Last.fm, LiveJournal, MySpace, Picasa, Pownce, Smugmug, Tumblr, Twitter, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Xanga, Yahoo! 360, Yelp, and YouTube. (we’ll be adding many more soon)

I know that without Plaxo, my address book would be in disarray. Maybe Pulse can put the rest of my digital life in order.