Mark Jen, the blogger who was fired by Google in January after only a few weeks on the job, has been hired by Plaxo Inc., the company that helps people keep up-to-date contact lists.

Jen was hired as a product producer working with Plaxo's engineering team, and today was his first day on the job, according to a spokeswoman for Plaxo. Jen was not immediately available for comment, and there's no mention of a new job on the Weblog that got him into trouble, which he calls "ninetyninezeros."

The Plaxo spokeswoman says Jen plans to write about the new position on his Weblog shortly.

"Plaxo has been, and continues to be a company with a progressive view of the blogosphere, viewing it as an excellent forum for open-dialogue with users of its products and services," she writes in an E-mail message.

Jen was fired from Google in late January after posting sensitive information about his first week on the job at the search-engine company, including his impressions of Google's business performance following presentations at a company sales meetings. Jen later removed some of the sensitive content from his site, but was fired anyway.