Unyk
Unyk.com is a contact management website, that allows users to put together an intelligent address book. This particular service bases itself on the sharing of contact information by its users; each user is therefore responsible for keeping his information updated in his or her contacts’ address book.
Concept
Users complete their personal and professional contact information in their profile on the website. They can then aggregate the contacts from all their messaging services (Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.) in their address book, and invite these contacts to complete their own profile on the website. When information is edited by a user, that information automatically appears in his contacts’ address books, and vice versa. Contrary to other sites, the user’s contacts are not visible to other users.
This service is free and available in 6 languages. Among the future projects of the company, they have mentioned the launch of a UNYK mobile platform, as well as a function to export contacts to major social networking platforms.
Company information
The company has been in business since 2005 and has recently announced that it has reached 14 million users and 700 million managed contacts on the site. Unyk.com is an independent company financed by private capital. The CEO of the company is Sebastien Brault, founder of Netclub, a dating website which was recently sold to Match.com (IAC/InterActiveCorp group.
Distribution
Like Plaxo, the site propose users to import their email contacts. The service then offers the option to send one invitation and optionally two reminders to the addresses collected from the user's email system -- entitled "Personal invitation from
External links
fr:Unyk