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Etacts Adds Contact Info, Social Networking, and Handy Statistics to Gmail

44 points by cominatchu 17y ago

fjabre 17y ago
Unfortunately only Etacts has access to Gmail's new oAuth APIs as far as I can tell.. In all fairness, I do hope Google gets around to releasing those APIs to the rest of us soon...
- pilif 17y ago
  are you sure this is still private? I haven't tried this, but http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap doesn't at all look private to me. In fact, when I found that, I was very happy to see this ingenious combination of SASL and OAuth.
  - fjabre 17y ago
    nice find. Thanks! Currently experimental but hopefully this is what they intend to officially release soon as rumored.. ps.. Does this work with Google Apps?? Anyone?
    - ooorrr 17y ago
      You certainly can't run it in conjunction - i.e. gmail in one tab and google apps in the other - it only handles one acct (unlike Rapportive). I didn't try just a google apps account.
pclark 17y ago
I think their website is down...
- dannyr 17y ago
  It's not. Just really, really slow.
- wallop 17y ago
  It's running, barely. I suspect they're using DreamHost.
  - jackowayed 17y ago
    Do you have any basis for that guess? whoishostingthis.com says Rackspace. This tweet implies that it's probably Rackspace Cloud http://twitter.com/etacts/status/10410920004 http://twitter.com/etacts/status/10410920004
    - pclark 17y ago
      I believe it was a joke
- cominatchu 17y ago
  should be quick again, sorry for the blip
  - deleted 17y ago
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fjabre 17y ago
This is pretty much exactly what Rapportive had just released except this has some added functionality. They imitated it very quickly unless they had plans to do this all along.. Xobni also had indicated it wanted to get into Google Apps and Gmail at some point in the near future. I wonder if this is the new model for building services on top of Gmail..
- pclark 17y ago
  it has more features but a much poorer ui than rapportive. for one thing their logo (etacts) is larger than the name of the person the email is from in the side bar.
cryptnoob 17y ago
Cool Timing! Looks like "Go Test It" may live another day!

44 points by cominatchu 17y ago

Unfortunately only Etacts has access to Gmail's new oAuth APIs as far as I can tell.. In all fairness, I do hope Google gets around to releasing those APIs to the rest of us soon...

pilif 17y ago
are you sure this is still private? I haven't tried this, but http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap doesn't at all look private to me. In fact, when I found that, I was very happy to see this ingenious combination of SASL and OAuth.
- fjabre 17y ago
  nice find. Thanks! Currently experimental but hopefully this is what they intend to officially release soon as rumored.. ps.. Does this work with Google Apps?? Anyone?
  - ooorrr 17y ago
    You certainly can't run it in conjunction - i.e. gmail in one tab and google apps in the other - it only handles one acct (unlike Rapportive). I didn't try just a google apps account.

pclark 17y ago

I think their website is down...

dannyr 17y ago
It's not. Just really, really slow.
wallop 17y ago
It's running, barely. I suspect they're using DreamHost.
- jackowayed 17y ago
  Do you have any basis for that guess? whoishostingthis.com says Rackspace. This tweet implies that it's probably Rackspace Cloud http://twitter.com/etacts/status/10410920004 http://twitter.com/etacts/status/10410920004
  - pclark 17y ago
    I believe it was a joke
cominatchu 17y ago
should be quick again, sorry for the blip
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]

fjabre 17y ago

This is pretty much exactly what Rapportive had just released except this has some added functionality. They imitated it very quickly unless they had plans to do this all along.. Xobni also had indicated it wanted to get into Google Apps and Gmail at some point in the near future. I wonder if this is the new model for building services on top of Gmail..

pclark 17y ago
it has more features but a much poorer ui than rapportive. for one thing their logo (etacts) is larger than the name of the person the email is from in the side bar.

cryptnoob 17y ago

Cool Timing! Looks like "Go Test It" may live another day!