This is pretty much exactly what Rapportive had just released except this has some added functionality. They imitated it very quickly unless they had plans to do this all along..

Xobni also had indicated it wanted to get into Google Apps and Gmail at some point in the near future. I wonder if this is the new model for building services on top of Gmail..

it has more features but a much poorer ui than rapportive.

for one thing their logo (etacts) is larger than the name of the person the email is from in the side bar.

Unfortunately only Etacts has access to Gmail's new oAuth APIs as far as I can tell..

In all fairness, I do hope Google gets around to releasing those APIs to the rest of us soon...

are you sure this is still private?

I haven't tried this, but http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap doesn't at all look private to me. In fact, when I found that, I was very happy to see this ingenious combination of SASL and OAuth.

nice find. Thanks! Currently experimental but hopefully this is what they intend to officially release soon as rumored..

ps.. Does this work with Google Apps?? Anyone?

You certainly can't run it in conjunction - i.e. gmail in one tab and google apps in the other - it only handles one acct (unlike Rapportive). I didn't try just a google apps account.

Cool Timing! Looks like "Go Test It" may live another day!

I think their website is down...

It's not. Just really, really slow.

should be quick again, sorry for the blip

It's running, barely. I suspect they're using DreamHost.

Do you have any basis for that guess?

whoishostingthis.com says Rackspace. This tweet implies that it's probably Rackspace Cloud http://twitter.com/etacts/status/10410920004

I believe it was a joke