Newly Seeded Etacts (YC W10) Seeking Holy Grail Of The Unified Inbox

I really think there's too many social networks / news feeds / email accounts / twitter accounts etc. these days... it's information overload.

With that said, I don't know if adding another layer to integrate everything is the best solution. Instead of uncomplicated our lives, it just adds one more thing to manage.

I can see it being used by people with hundreds of contacts, but for the average user, it's probably not necessary, and perhaps overly complicated.

Its also useful for other things, I don't have hundreds of emails but i find it nice to have information on the person i am emailing (pic, recent emails, linkedin, fbook etc) all at the side of the email i am composing in gmail.

What's the major difference between eTacts and Xobni, or are they more or less competitors?

The major difference seems to be platform. Xobni works with Outlook, eTacts is for Gmail. I suspect the two will have a lot of duplicated functionality.

"Liu says Etacts plans to move to Outlook and other services."

Just tried etacts. Pretty cool service. I know another company doing the same thing albeit on mobile phones, showing caller's social context on incoming calls (sociallyapp.com).

Great job Ev and Howie