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One other UX improvement I see. Since right sidebar is taking quite a lot of real estate, and might appear from random hover over the username, instead:

1. Show semi-transparent floating thumbnail(photo/shortbio/social) in the top left corner
2. Hover over a thumbnail, it becomes solid, showing that move info is available
3. Click, it expands to sidebar(like now)
4. Click anywhere on the screen to close the sidebar ("X" is too far away)

I would enjoy this less intrusive experience a bit more. At least make it as an option :)

This looks interesting - takes contact discovery beyond gmail. A bit like Nimble, a bit like Rapportive. Worth a try.

I love rapportive. Just installed this baby The ability to "buy" someone's contact info is turning me off a bit. I know theres plenty of websites that offer the same thing and I've never thought to pony up $ for an email or phone # vs just trying to find it elsewhere or thru a connection. Wonder where the info comes from and if its just getting scraped? Also checkout Twitter once you add it, there are about a thousand 6º showing up lol

@KristoferTM agree that turning on the discoverability everywhere is an overload. You can remove sites from the list to avoid that problem and use a right-click method instead. Re: the business model, I would rather subscribe for a nominal amount than trade contacts. Those things being said, think it's an interesting service and similar to what we were trying to build at Gist in 2009-2011

This looks very useful. Here are a few similar products recently submitted: Riffle and Vibe. StackLead is also very useful for businesses, surfacing user information via email signups. They also offer an API.

Thanks for the feedback! A few points of clarification. The service is completely free -- including getting contacts. We start everyone off with 50 credits so there's no charge. If you want more, just ask us (nicely;). Even when we roll out of beta, there will always be some version of free. You can also turn off those pesky beacons for any site. In the upper left part of the browser extension, you can click on the six degree icon with a green circle around it. When you click on the icon, it turns off the beacons on that particular website. When the beacons are deactivated, there is a red circle around the six degree icon. To reactivate the beacons, just click on the icon and the beacons will reappear. We place those beacons next to any personal identifier so you can hover over them to get quick profile, contact info, and see your connection path. We would love your ideas how to make this more elegant.

@Connect6Lead I like what you've done here a lot. Happy to see more people innovating with the hidden gem of dev platforms: browser extensions. Every time I hear mobile devs talk about 'building habit' I just smile - context-specific habit is automatically baked in to every well thought out browser extension.