One of the startups that pitched the crowd last week at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, and whose co-founder Rahul Vohra myself and the other jury members crowned the best presenter of the bunch ...

The universal deployment of Gmail's new compose experience seems to have come at the expense of Rapportive, perhaps its most useful plugin. Rapportive connects addresses entered into the “to” field ...

The best collaboration technologies immediately fit into the flow of your work and improve or streamline it in some way. I've been running Rapportive, a Firefox or Chrome plugin that displays useful ...

Rapportive makes a browser plug-in for Gmail, which displays the social networking details for an individual if he/she is corresponding on e-mail. In short, a user can directly view the ...

Big news for a little company: after rumors cropped up earlier this month that Rapportive, the Gmail plug-in that lets you see information and social media updates on your contacts, was acquired by ...

Firefox/Chrome: Sure it's nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren't really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with ...

When we check out Gmail, most of us have learnt to ignore the right-hand panel with advertisements. What if those messages were replaced with something more useful, like an online profile of the ...

If you're trying to guess the email address of someone, you don't really have a lot of options other than trial and error. However, tech site Digital Inspiration ...

Rapportive is a plugin for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that adds a sidebar to your Gmail messages, inserting data pulled from Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and elsewhere, as well as giving you room to ...

One of the things that have annoyed me over the years has been applications that have no real customizability. Sure, in many of these you can switch features on and off but for many apps, adding a ...

What if every time someone sent you an email you were automatically provided with a few basic facts about that person as well as links to their profiles on various social media sites? Or consider the ...