Months ago, rumors surfaced that social networking site Facebook was in the process of making a purchase of contact-management and networking site Plaxo. Today Comcast, Inc., said they will purchase Plaxo, a long time partner of Comcast’s, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The two companies have been partners for the last two years, with Plaxo managing Comcast’s webmail for it’s 26 million subscribers. The strategy makes sense, since Plaxo will be able to expand it’s current user-base to the mainstream, allowing Comcast customers to share photos, videos, and music across several devices on the service. Plaxo currently holds over 50 million accounts.

The move seems to be pointed at moving social media sharing into the mainstream, not just the tech- and web-savvy.

The name Plaxo has often made tech support personnel groan because in the past, Plaxo plug-ins for e-mail software such as Microsoft Outlook has been buggy, and often slowed down already bloated desktop-based e-mail clients.

Nowadays, it seems like Plaxo has cleaned up their act, bugging users to sign up their friends less, and emphasizing their web interface more. Web Worker Daily has a nice, well-rounded review of their services.

Any Comcast subscribers out there who have been using the web mail, what do you think of Plaxo? Other Plaxo users? What do you think of the purchase? Who do you think got the better end of the deal? Let us know in the comments.

-The Raging Tech