Rapportive just turned Gmail into a really useful Twitter client

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/06/10/rapportive-just-turned-gmail-into-a-really-useful-twitter-client/

by rahulvohra • 15 years ago

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ajones05• 15 years ago

I've been using rapportive for a few months and love it. It provides additional context about the person you're corresponding with - social profiles, crunchbase info, etc. It occasionally displays completely innacurate info, though. Somebody else using it recently congratulated me on a recent multimillion dollar investment... unfortunately that wasn't me, but a VC with the same name.

rahulvohra3• 15 years ago

Apologies for that! Our data is now extremely accurate, apart from our CrunchBase Raplet — which is in great need of tender loving care. We'll get on it.

In the meantime, hit me up at rahul@rapportive.com and I'll sort out the error for you :)

bostonvaulter2• 15 years ago

It would be nice to be able to mark in the CrunchBase Raplet that the person the email is from doesn't match the CrunchBase profile.

maukdaddy2• 15 years ago

Here's a Venn diagram showing the relationship I want my Gmail and twitter to have:

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BoppreH2• 15 years ago

Could you explain why? Do you use them for completely different purposes? Don't trust the system at some point or another? Don't want to bloat either service?

olh• 15 years ago

That guy must be really, really, mad. Who would not like "allow access to data on mail.google.com"?

joedogboi• 15 years ago

Well, I know for myself: email is enough of a distraction without adding twitter to it. Rapportive provides a useful service by providing me more information about my contacts. By adding the ability to reply to twitter, though, it becomes more than service providing information; It ends up becoming another possible distraction. No, I don't have ADHD. I just have little self control when it comes to things that pull me out of writing. My brain resists work.

Also, of course, there's the fear of inevitable feature bloat. A service that works well at one thing should continue improving in that area without adding unnecessary features.

maukdaddy2• 15 years ago

Way too much sensitive data in my gmail account that I don't want broadcast to the world via twitter. It doesn't matter what kind of controls are in place, I'm not taking the risk that all of my online shopping, password resets, private email, etc. gets accidentally tweeted.

quinndupont2• 15 years ago

I used rapportive for a while months ago, but in my experience it slowed down gmail. I like the idea, but it needs to be lightening fast, or just load leisurely once gmail is up and running.

samstokes2• 15 years ago

Improving performance is our number one priority at the moment. We aim not to slow down Gmail at all. Hope you'll give us a try again soon!

quinndupont2• 15 years ago

Great! I will!

juddlyon• 15 years ago

Rapportive is useful. I've found that I've written more personalized emails since I can see a pic of person I'm writing too.

It's also handy for small talk. "I saw your Tweet about Conference X, how was it?"

rorrr• 15 years ago

I've tried rapportive around a month ago. Couldn't figure out what it does. All I see is a Rapportive menu item at the very top of my Gmail.

I tried it again now, same thing. I connected to Twitter and Facebook, that didn't do anything. I don't see any widgets or new features. I'm on Win7 + Chrome.

Seems useless.

Uninstalling...

rahulvohra3• 15 years ago

Did you see the Rapportive sidebar to the right of a conversation? It should show you useful context about the people you're communicating with.

If not, do you perhaps have any conflicting Gmail extensions? (e.g. Better Gmail can conflict.)

Rapportive just turned Gmail into a really useful Twitter client

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