Voicemails from Google Voice (voice-noreply@google.com) show the "google view", including some unclickable links (Web, Images, Videos, Maps, etc).

This is easily recognizable as a Google Voice email, and to me, it doesn't make sense to have a stripped down google homepage. Don't have any great ideas about what to put there, though.

I think, you can show a link with a little icon in the rapportive panel for informing you about automated emails. manuel emaling can be hard for most users.

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Below is what shows for my Washington Post daily update. What puzzles me is the hi5 connection with someone not otherwise identified with the site.

washingtonpost.com - nation, world, …technology and Washington area news and headlines

We copied this title from washingtonpost.com.

If you would like to change the title displayed on your organisation's Rapportive profile, you can do one of two things:

* If you own washingtonpost.com and can change the site's programming, you can change the site's <title> tag. We will reflect the change in about two weeks.
* Email us at supportive@rapportive.com. We will promptly make the change for you.

We are considering making it possible to edit your organisation's profile directly from Rapportive. If you would find this useful, please let us know!
newsletters@email.washingtonpost.com

New info! Click here to refresh.

Rapportive updated. Click to refresh.

The Washington Post is a leading source for news and video on politics, national, federal government, foreign policy, business, green issues, science and local issues. …We also offer award-winning opinion writing, entertainment information and restaurant reviews. Our local coverage includes reporting on education, crime, weather, traffic, real estate, jobs and cars for DC, Maryland and Virginia.

We copied this description from washingtonpost.com.

If you would like to change the description displayed on your organisation's Rapportive profile, you can do one of two things:

* If you own washingtonpost.com and can change the site's programming, you can change the site's <meta name="description"/> tag. We will reflect the change in about two weeks.
* Email us at supportive@rapportive.com. We will promptly make the change for you.

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Thanks for all your comments guys! This is a pretty chunky reply:

Re: auto-confirm@amazon.com, ebay@ebay.com:
I've updated these profiles now. We had an internal discussion about whether to ban all social networks from profiles of companies or not, and decided that some people would like to attach company twitter profiles or facebook pages to their profiles — so we kept them. We do seem to find several incorrect links, though hopefully the problem will begin to go away in time. If you spot anymore, please let supportive@rapportive.com know :).

Re: amplify.com, clearcapital.com, pastemagazine.com:
I've updated these profiles as you have suggested — thank you! If you want further changes, please email supportive@rapportive.com, and we'll try our best.

Re: newsletter@cbsnews.online.com:
That's interesting, the reason for this is that http://online.com/ redirects to CNET. Both sites are closely connected. I've blanked the profile for now, but will try and work out a fix later.

Re: administrate — We just copied what they said in zoneedit.com's description (if you view the source of their home page you will see it too). Besides, it seems that administrate has been used as a (incorrect?) substitute for administer since at least the 1700s, so maybe we can let people off by now :-) http://bit.ly/95BdFO

Re: Translation of foreign pages — that's also a pretty neat idea! We're not doing that for the moment, because we figured that if you get emails from a site, you will speak the language that they do, but we could look at your language preference and try to do some translating. (Realistically it'll probably be machine translation only to start with)

The Twitter acct you have on the auto-confirm@amazon.com Rapportive page (@twitter_stuff) is not an official Amazon account, I think. I don't believe its appropriate to put fan pages on corporate Rapportive summaries.

Company profile info seems to be showing up great for me. Thanks for that!
However the social links for places like ebay@ebay.com or any other customer service related email are usually profiles for very random people.
Certainly ebay isn't a 24 yo female for L.A. CA with dfdsf for a name on myspace. :)
Just letting ya know. You guys rock.

In your ZoneEdit summary, "adminstrate" is not a real word. Use "administer". Okaythxbye.

I got an email from newsletters@cbsnews.online.com. Rapportive thought it was CNET. Weird.

for mailer@amplify.com - description. I suggest:

Amplify is a service for engaging in conversation. Clip web pages and add your thoughts; microblog; full out blog; share random thoughts, images, video. Post to multiple services. Amplify supports Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Pages, Wordpress, Posterous, Tumblr, and Delicious, among others. It's the social web, your way & content creation made easy.

Translating foreign entries (e.g. gandi.net is default in French, which doesn't mean a lot to me) could be handy :)

Just got an email from Paste Magazine and the name on the Rapportive card was "Paste Magazine :: The Best New Music, Movies, TV, Games, and Books :: Music and Movie News, Reviews, Features, Videos, MP3s and More." It would be simpler if it just said "Paste Magazine." Email address was newsletter@pastemagazine.com

It would be helpful to add a Careers link (www.clearcapital.com/jobs) to our profile. Thanks.

@Chris Maddern, we do try to search for the correct domain or subdomain to use. Any chance you could post an example (here or to supportive@rapportive.com) of an email address that we do the wrong thing for? Thanks!

@sam thanks for the info - formatting looks absolutely fine now; I didn't spot it anywhere else, but then I also didn't have any more company emails immediately to hand - if it pops up again & do a few checks before I squeal ;-)

Looked fine but didn't have a white background from skype.com

Should probably consider Second Level Domain. e.g. LoveFilm - come from info.lovefilm.com. The domain does not work, and so the short links don't work.

@Chris, the broken formatting can sometimes happen if our servers are running slow or the internet connection has a momentary hiccup. Do you see it on all profiles or just those ones? If you refresh your Gmail tab that should fix it.

I've fixed those bogus social network links on slashdot@slashdot.org and Sales@chainreactioncycles.com - thanks for spotting those, keep letting us know of any that you find!

Just recognized the feature - awesome

Hmmm... I'm seeing the same effect on slashdot@slashdot.org

Anything you'd like me to do?

Sales@chainreactioncycles.com

+1 for unexpected but awesome - a few issues to report, though:

The info all looks kosher (apart from one link I'll mention in a sec), but the formatting was a bit crazy. The header was, unsurprisingly, large and bold, but it also took up almost half the sidebar. The summary was almost as long, pushing the links way down.

If I scrolled to the bottom of the page, the content of the Rapportive sidebar extended out beyond the white space, and the Google ads popped back into existence underneath it, creating a nasty overlay effect.

Oh, and it included a random link to a bebo account (http://www.bebo.com/c/profile?MemberId=638177817) which has nothing to do with the company (as far as I can tell), and the link seemed to have the bebo icon as a background, which was odd.

</braindump> Minor tweaks aside, it's very handy - thanks guys!