rahulvohra

proud to have you on the team. let's crush it.

Hey there, refresh your Gmail tab and checkout a twitter follower notification :)

We do have an API to let folks write Rapportive applications, or Raplets. Checkout raplets.com for some examples. Here's a funky video of the MailChimp one: http://blip.tv/file/3859911

It didn't take us too long to get to 30K either :)

Hey there, thanks for the kind words. Co-founder of Rapportive here. I had exactly the same experience when renting a room in my house. A facebook or myspace link told me more than showing people the room, as people tend to be on best behaviour.

Interestingly, we've had similar stories of folks finding Rapportive useful when hiring. One VC was hiring an associate and found the tweets more telling than the CVs.

+1 for Mailplane for Windows

Try unchecking the "Remove Ads. Fix Page width. Reposition print button." setting in Better Gmail. Does that help?

Re: approximate time remaining - good idea!

Currently, only you can see your notes. In the future, we want to allow sharing across teams and integration with CRMs.

Ah, I messed up. Can you try it again?

This was actually a website we prepared for investors; we weren't intending a public beta today! But the press found it, and so here we are. That's why you can't see a privacy policy.

In the absence of a written policy, we'll "treat users right" which roughly means we'll "treat users how we ourselves would want to be treated".

That's not particularly computable, so: the bodies of user's emails never leave the browser. We find email addresses in the browser, and send those back to our server to lookup. The emails themselves never touch our server.

We search on-demand currently. A search will start the first time you open an email from an address we don't know about. Searches can take about a day right now.

We are actually fully compatible with Safari already; we just haven't yet got round to releasing a little Mac OS app that always runs our JS on mail.google.com.

You can use the following bookmarklet in Safari to get Rapportive: http://rapportive.com/extensions/safari/bookmarklet.js

The downside is that you have to manually start it in your Gmail tab. The upside is that most peoples' Gmail tabs are very long lived and, hey, it works in Safari :)

The most seamless way to get Rapportive working on Google Apps is to make your Google Apps email a Google Account and give it the same password. You can do that here: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

We want to make this experience better :)

If it's truly wonderful (useful, satisfies a need, fits into customers' lives), how could it be impossible to sell?

I sit next to the Broadersheet guys.

The language is certainly not fake; the exuberance is definitely real.

Agreed. I often have to give people my UDID several times ... and then sometimes it still doesn't work.

Springboard page: http://springboard.red-gate.com/

And just to clarify the TC article: Red Gate are looking for multiple teams of two to three people, not just one group.

There's scanr.com, which was pretty good a few years ago.

Good point and good idea :)

Sudoku Magic is similar to Sudoku Grab, but we improve on the two main use cases:

1. Playing Sudoku. We want to give players a better Sudoku experience. Simple things like tactile sounds and highlighting the current row, column and square make people happy. (The aesthetic still has a long way to go though.)

2. Showing off. People mostly use our application to amaze their friends. That's why we show as-it-happens images of the vision algorithms. We're still finding ways to make it cooler. Any suggestions would be much appreciated :)

We actually got this working in J2ME back in 2005. We were negotiating a distribution deal with a handset manufacturer, but the discussion slowly went nowhere. They wanted it on a wider range of handsets than was feasible, as camera access on various handsets was significantly broken. For example, checkout http://www.scribd.com/doc/17740520/Samsung-Z-Series-Handsets...

- In the Z140, asking for a 640x480 image gave you a 320x240 image, squashed and repeated twice.

- In the Z540V, asking for a 320x240 image gave you an image which was green and skewed!

Thank god for platform homogeneity.

For a while now, computers have been able to recognise human emotions more reliably than humans can: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/emotions/

Given a good full frontal view of a face, a computer can tell the difference between laughing and crying or sadness and anger. The real challenge is dealing with variance in pose and lighting.

(Disclosure: I was doing a PhD in that research group.)