And another social network hits the Web - Plaxo.com . Caroline McCarthy gives us an interesting overview of the features on Plaxo, which is still in Beta, but working. Plaxo, comparable to Twitter and Pownce in many ways, also has a few important differences. Here are a few interesting captions…

The list of Pulse-compatible “people feeds” is currently limited to a handful of services popular with the consumer market and a few that are very much the domain of the trendy early-adopter set: Amazon.com wish lists, AOL Pictures, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, Jaiku, Last.fm, LiveJournal, MySpace.com, Picasa, Pownce, Smugmug, Tumblr, Twitter, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Xanga, Yahoo 360, Yelp, YouTube.

When the service comes out of Beta, there will be much more feed functionality.

Pulse will likely give a considerable advantage to Plaxo in that it puts a friendlier face to a networking site that, as of now, has a strictly business reputation: kind of like Plaxo’s version of the cute BlackBerry Pearl. There is nothing really revolutionary about any of the technology behind it, but it does present concepts like microblogging and RSS aggregation in a way that just about anyone’s mom could easily understand.

The microblogging model introduced a while back still has some steam left, now with the new Plaxo social network, but the concept didn’t get much attention from web users, apart from social network addicts. There is still strength in sites like Plaxo.com as they appeal to a smaller, more specific audience.

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