(via New People Widget in Gmail adds context to your contacts - Google)
Google will be rolling out this new Gmail widget over the next few weeks. Looks like an effort to take back the upper right hand corner of their territory which has been claimed by Rapportive and Gist. But it doesn’t reach out as far, and the use case here is that of work friends coordinating some party, which isn’t Rapportive’s pitch.
Will Google misstep on this, and fail to make the People Widget truly compelling, like they have with Google Tasks? Google Tasks does not support any collaboration, for example, so the nearly most obvious scenario — assigning a task to a colleague or friend — has been missing since launch.
What I want is LinkedIn style information about people I don’t know well. And the most recent tweets of nearly everybody I am coordinating with, and so on. Not just Google mail and calendar information.
Google: There is a big world of social software out there that we rely on. Please think of us when you build these toys, not just the folks eating free lunch at the Googleplex!
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