Hey folks, we’re nearly done on this. When we’re ready, we’ll release a small beta test to everybody who’s voted on the idea. Thank you for waiting :)

Rahul, CEO of Rapportive

We are definitely going to let you edit your contact records for other people. Right now, we’re working on giving you as much context as we can about your contacts without making you do the work of filling in their details, but we know that’s not enough on its own.

When we enable editing other people’s profiles, the edits will be private to you: in other words, if you edit someone’s profile, we’ll show you the edited version, but other people won’t see your edits. That’s because your contact data belongs to you, and we won’t share it without your consent; it’s also to protect the privacy of people who might not want their social network profiles being revealed in public.

If you have any ideas on how you would like this to work, please do let us know in the comments!

We’ll definitely consider supporting Outlook if enough people want it. To that end, if you haven’t already, would you mind voting on this idea? We get a lot of feature requests (for which we’re very grateful!) and the votes help us to prioritise.

We already show recent tweets: just click on the Twitter link in the sidebar and it’ll expand to show their most recent tweets. (I find this pretty useful!)

We’re working on doing similar things for Facebook, LinkedIn and other networks too. We’ll probably need to ask you to log into each of those networks before we could display information from them, and it will probably only work for people you were already friends with. We’ve got some ideas on how to make integration with social networks really useful.

I’ll update here when there’s more news on this.

We already support this for Twitter. Next time you get a notification email that someone is following you, or has sent you a DM, check the sidebar: we show you that person’s tweets and any other information we could find about them.

Support for other networks is planned!

Me too! In the long run we want Rapportive to work in all webmail systems and mail clients. We’ll probably work on the most popular clients first. If you know other Thunderbird users, get them to vote here!

Could you suggest how you would like this to work? We don’t want to run the risk of being confusing – if we show our sidebar, which is basically a contact record, next to the existing Google contact record, it would look a bit weird, especially if the data we have isn’t the same as what you’ve got in your address book.

What would you find most useful to augment Google Contacts? Or is the main benefit that you’d be able to search directly for a contact (as Michelle describes) rather than having to first find an email from them?

I really like this idea (I’d use it too!). Integrating it with Google Tasks is also a pretty cool idea (would play nicely with mobile sync!).

Yup, we want to do this. (In the meantime, until we put in a proper “report” button, we’d appreciate it if you could drop us an email at support@rapportive.com if you find abusive profiles!)

I agree, support Mail.app would be awesome — we want you to be able to just continuing whatever email client you prefer. Right now we’re focussed on making Rapportive the best Gmail plugin in the world; in the medium term we will take what we’ve learnt in Gmail and apply it across other email clients.

That means it might unfortunately take a little while until we get to supporting Mail.app, but it definitely will come.

Best,
Martin

This feature request keeps coming up in feedback emails! It’s a little tricky to implement, as we have to keep track of all the reminders for all our users, even if they’re not logged into Rapportive when the reminder is due. But we know how popular it is, and we’d use it ourselves, so we’ll definitely see what we can do.

In the meantime, check out a really handy service: http://followup.cc. You cc your emails to it, and it sends you follow-up reminders.

Hi Ygor,

Awesome idea — We’ll keep you upated here as we make progress.

Conrad

We will soon be allowing you to add any website to Rapportive. Thanks for your patience! :)

Hello everybody,

We’ve been working hard on a Highrise Raplet, and we’re now ready to release a private beta to a very small group. The beta is invitation only at the moment; if you’d like an invite, please drop us a line at supportive@rapportive.com and let us know!

Best,
Rahul

Thanks Deb, this is a great idea! We’ll look into supporting this.

Thanks for getting in touch,

We have vague plans to allow sites to embed Rapportive in the future, though it’s likely to be a while before that happens.

I’ll keep you in the loop,

Conrad

This is a good idea – thanks! We’ll look into this.

We’ve already improved our support for a related situation, when you get an email from an automated system or company address: we show you a summary of the company and useful links. See here for details: http://rapportive.uservoice.com/forums/42557-general/suggestions/518911-display-an-informative-and-helpful-profile-when-co?ref=title