Zentact Blog

Last night, we posted a new release of the web site and our Add-on.     There are numerous new features to be discussed so I will start with one of my favorites - our new Twitter integration.

When looking at the contacts in our database, we discovered nearly 10% of the email addresses were linked to Twitter accounts.   With over 500K contacts, we figured we could make this data useful.

For our users with Gmail (hosted or not),  we automatically add twitter data on the fly for you.   Email your contacts, in Zentact or not, and if there is a match, we will show you their latest tweet.

In the screen shot below, the first contact’s name and tags are missing because this email was the first I had ever sent to him.  The other two, Jared and Eric, both have complete information since they are in my database.

This is the first of many features that will add real time, actionable data into your email account.    To start to use this feature, just update your Add-on at https://zentact.com/zentact.xpi

We pushed an updated website late Monday evening and a new Firefox extension Tuesday morning. The release gets us closer to our public beta. For those of you using the service, things to look for include:

• Contact importing from Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail/Livemail
• One click contact addition from LinkedIN.
• Post email contact addition/modification in Yahoo Mail
• Inline contact management in Gmail - add or modify contacts within the page
• Automatic invitation linkage

It is a big release. Give the new features a try and let us know what you think. We will be posting more details on each feature over the next few days.

If you don’t have an account yet, please Request an Invitation and we’ll get you an invite shortly.