How often you receive e-mails from someone or some company and you search the Internet to find out more about them?

Like, a lot???

Seems like the idea is that Gist does that job for you so you don’t have to.

I can see clearly a lot of oportunities to develop a business model.

The related funcionality is not working too much for because I have a lot of small clients here in Brazil and the aggregator seens to not follow then.

But after all I’m happy with it.

BTW, I tried Xobni, and stopped using it.

Now, I can see some value to bring some integration. For example, I like the fact that Skype integrate with my outlook. Very easy to call someone. It is not a easy problem to solve.

When you say Seesmic, are you talking about Seemic the video conversation or Seesmic the social desktop app? I assume is the desktop app. It still new, so, they might be able to pull it off. They seem to be genuinely listen to their community.

Now, Seesmic and Tweetdeck businesses are really build-to-flip business models. So, their only hope (to give good return to their investors) is to sell.

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Useless blogging.

But a desktop app that just combines some data from 3 sites is just a waste of resources. Think about it, if I am emailing someone on Outlook, I already know a lot or at least some info about them. My Outlook and Mail.app is precious to me. I will not want to clutter it with my 7000 Linkedin and 800 Facebook connections. I like to keep them where they are and access them when I need it. Even Xobni with $14 million in funding could not find traction. It just goes to show that people like Outlook the way it is. Stop messing with it.

Also think about it, when Linkedin, Facebook lose their stream, 67% of Gist down the drain. As for Twitter, people are happy with Tweetdeck. And it will take a lot to change that. Seesmic tried, Failed.

Thanks for the comment. We are glad that Gist is working well for you.

We certainly agree that we are much more than a desktop app (though we do work inside Outlook), but you can also get value from Gist on the web or even on your iPhone today. Our focus is on saving your time and helping you gain new insights, and aggregation is only a means to an end, not the end itself.

T.A. McCann (founder of Gist)

+ I would not swap my Photoshop for a online photo editing (even if I am using some from time to time).

+ I would not exchange Excel for Google docs, even if I use Google docs in many occasion.

+ And would definitely not trade my Eclipse for any online development tools (even if I think that online development tools have tremendous potential -as complementary way to dev an app-).

So, yes, tablets and netbooks are great, but only if you already have a full PC/Mac as well.

I might try it again in future and see if there is something for me. If yes I will definitely stick to it.

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What’s really cool about the service and concept (which isn’t a desktop app, so far as I’m aware) is that it grabs the names of people you talk to and the companies they’re related to and generates a giant news list for those, so you can keep up to date with the people you talk to, and no what they’re doing even if you’re not currently doing something with them.

That seems like the big ticket idea, and being self-employed, something that helps me keep track of potential clients (to perhaps perfectly time a “hey, I just heard about that thing you’re doing, need a hand?” email) is potentially powerful.

Additionally, any web based email system can be integrated with Outlook by creating a new folder, entering properties and filling out a URL and checking “Show home page by defualt for this folder” on the homepage tab.

Facebook and linked in already notify you of new posts via email if you have the correct settings in each application.

Gist may do all this better, but unless it’s free, I would not be interested.