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That's pretty handy. I had just turned off Rapportive because of how many people it was unable to find. It just wasn't very useful (given the types of people I regularly communicate with).

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It recognizes most of the people in my inbox. I love reportive, it's especially useful when I get a cold email from someone I don't know.

We find that the coverage varies a lot -- some users get a great experience, for others very little is found. We really want to improve that, and covering those 10% of emails which come from organisations is a first step.

Would this be sufficient to make you turn Rapportive on again? :)

I have had mixed results. For my corporate inbox it's not as useful (except to identify sales goons who are cold calling and to see who in my company has profiles on which social sites -- which can be very entertaining indeed!). For my personal inbox it works better but is less entertaining since I typically know everyone I'm corresponding with and already follow the twitterers, etc.

What I'd like to see is some enhancement in the area of CRMness similar to what http://noteleaf.com/ provides, notably the tasks/alerts feature.

To answer your question, though, yes, I am going to turn it back on. :)

Great feedback, thanks!

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