Digital Strategies for business: Simon Surtees

This is an adapt of an article from I found on Readwriteweb.com. I currently use Rapportive and Wisestamp, and they're very handy additions to the Gmail suite, so I'll definitely see how Greplin comes along.

Having become part of the Android fraternity recently with my new shiny Samsung Galaxy S, Google is firmly the technology provider which extends my productivity and connectivity the greatest. I hadn't appreciated the level of Google integration which flows through my life, but tools like these below are just part of the reason why I'm moving more and more to 'life in the cloud'.

Go check them out.

Rapportive

Rapportive is a browser plug-in which looks at the adress you've received an email from and displays social network data, job titles and locations in the sidebar of your browser. Rapportive has a lot more planned, but you'll be amazed to see how much even this adds to your email experience. The one down side? It's not very easy to correct the information Rapportive shows about you or other people.

How This Leverages Email as a Platform

Email as identity indicator, plus that identity as hub for data aggregation, equals awesome.

WiseStamp

WiseStamp is a browser plug-in that makes it easy to automatically add dynamic content to your email signature. TechCrunch just wrote about the service opening up to the public today.

You can set WiseStamp to automatically add a link to your most recent articles, recent posts, recent messages from Twitter.

How This Leverages Email as a Platform

WiseStamp mashes up the communication platform of email with streams of our personal syndicated published content. This is a great example of how feeds of content can enrich our everyday lives. In this case, there's nothing in our emails being analyzed, but email's communication capabilities (and what really beats email for communication, still?) are built upon and added to by WiseStamp.

The Killer App: Greplin

Greplin, an incredible cloud-based search service that indexes and adds to a universal personal search box the contents of your emails, calendar, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, BaseCamp, Evernote, Salesforce and more.

It is, if it works as well as it says it does, a dream come true. Don't remember which communication service a message came through? Greplin will solve that problem.

How This Leverages Email as a Platform

Greplin searches a whole lot for free, and if it can do this much at launch - it's exciting to think about what it could do in the future. The sky's the limit when you can quickly process huge stores of your own personal data, though.

Greplin Demo from greplin on Vimeo.

via readwriteweb.com