The ultimate Gmail addon!

I see a ton of cool things every day on the Internet, but now and then a real gem comes along, today’s gem is called Rapportive.

Rapportive is a Gmail add-on, which works with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and others. The premise behind Rapportive is that it replaces the Google Ads on the right of your Gmail account with useful information about the sender of the email you’re reading.

In the other, when you receive an email and open it, the right hand side of your screen will provide you with a useful block of information about the sender; from their social profiles to various companies they run or businesses they work with to an assortment of other things.

With the web getting more and more social, and the amount of information to manage growing more and more, it’s easy to see how such a Y Combinator startup would be able to raise over $1mil to fund further growth of the project.

I, unfortunately, haven’t tried it out yet as I’m on my iPhone, but the minute I get to the office in the morning, it’ll be the first thing I do.

If you’re interested in reading more or downloading yourself a copy, here’s the link: http://rapportive.com

Let us know what you think if you try it out please..

UPDATE:

I’ve tried it out and it’s really seamless and doesn’t interfere at all, but based on what I’ve seen, I think it will become more valuable when more and more people start using it.