putting all your personal contact information into the hands of a third party, who might sell all this stuff to others (says so in their terms of usage).

Yeah, but you run that same risk no matter who you give personal contact information to, whether it be Amazon, or Yahoo, Crutchfield, or hell, even Empeg for that matter.

I do, however, protect that contact information whenever possible. For example, FusionOne didn't get my real e-mail address, phone number, or, street address. Unless it's absolutely necessary for me to use the service (for example, if the service won't work until after they've e-mailed me the password), then I always put a fake email address in, for example "[email protected]".

Of course, they can't see your contact information because it's encrypted (yeah, right).

Now, as far as FusionOne having access to my bookmark file stored on their server, I really don't care. Since I wasn't synching my address book, it wasn't important. I was more interested in having FusionOne synchronize snippets of source code that I was working on between home and work.

But alas, even that is "not to be" for me, as the FusionOne client crashes on my Win98 computer at home. Too bad, it was pretty promising and looked like it could do the job for me. Also, I didn't like the way it had to stay active in the taskbar and monitor my file I/O in order to get its job done. I just wanted manual synchs based on file changes, not another complex resource-hogging app in my taskbar.

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Tony Fabris