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Hey Ray,
We’re planning to do something similar to this — but instead of a thumbnail, just a little snippet of text, along with some helpful links (to the FAQ, or the Blog, or the Contact Us page in addition to the homepage).
Thumbnails are kind of cool — but it’s hard to get across enough useful information — so maybe we’ll come back to them later, but it might not be necessary,
Conrad
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Ray Larabie
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. . . by non-webmail domains, I mean: don't bother making thumbnails for popular webmail domains such as gmail.com, hotmail.com yahoo.com etc. as they tell us nothing about the sender.
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currently, the email address's domain name is clickable which is very useful. But what if that domain could be used to generate a site thumbnail of that domain's homepage. For example, if I receive mail from someone@casio.jp, a thumbnail of the www.casio.jp site would appear.
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Thank you for your idea — we’re looking into ways of making this work.
Names are tricky, because they can have different spellings, can be abbreviated, and sometimes two different people can have the same name. But I’m sure we will find a way of solving this. In the meantime, thanks for bearing with us!
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Hi Keith, good idea, thanks — I can imagine that an animation would be really annoying! We’ll have to look into this to see what we can do.
In the meantime, can you just discourage your contacts from using animated GIFs? :)
Best, Martin
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I like having the animated gifs because it's very useful to know that the person I'm dealing with is an idiot.
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We are definitely going to let you edit your contact records for other people. Right now, we’re working on giving you as much context as we can about your contacts without making you do the work of filling in their details, but we know that’s not enough on its own.
When we enable editing other people’s profiles, the edits will be private to you: in other words, if you edit someone’s profile, we’ll show you the edited version, but other people won’t see your edits. That’s because your contact data belongs to you, and we won’t share it without your consent; it’s also to protect the privacy of people who might not want their social network profiles being revealed in public.
If you have any ideas on how you would like this to work, please do let us know in the comments!
Ray Larabie
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It's not just a matter of the thumbnails being informative but more as a colourful mnemonic. Picture the thumbnails on the Google Chrome new tab page with the bottom 50% removed. They can also serve to help make kind of a snap judgment as to what type of person or company you're dealing with.
And yeah, cool too.