We’ve made some progress on this: once you’ve connected your Google Contacts to Rapportive (http://blog.rapportive.com/address-book-inbox-together-at-last), then if you have several email addresses for a contact, we’ll recognise that the different email addresses are the same person, and show the same profile for all of them. This means you can “link” two profiles together by creating a contact in Google Contacts with both of the email addresses – however please note we could take up to a day to notice the change.
If we determine from your Google Contacts that two email addresses are the same person, that will be private to you – i.e. you’ll see the same information for that person from then on, but other people will still see them as separate. That’s because people often want to keep their personal and professional identities separate in public.
We know there are times when you want to link addresses together without mucking around with Google Contacts (especially if you don’t use Google Contacts for anything else!), and we’re still working on a way to support that.
We are also already working on a way for you to say “this email address belongs to me, associate it with my Rapportive profile” (obviously we’ll have to verify it really does belong to you!). That way people will be able to link together all the email addresses they use, if they choose to do so. (I use several email addresses myself, so I appreciate the need for this!)
Will update this when we know when these features are likely to roll out.
We’ve made some progress on this: once you’ve connected your Google Contacts to Rapportive (http://blog.rapportive.com/address-book-inbox-together-at-last), then if you have several email addresses for a contact, we’ll recognise that the different email addresses are the same person, and show the same profile for all of them. This means you can “link” two profiles together by creating a contact in Google Contacts with both of the email addresses – however please note we could take up to a day to notice the change.
If we determine from your Google Contacts that two email addresses are the same person, that will be private to you – i.e. you’ll see the same information for that person from then on, but other people will still see them as separate. That’s because people often want to keep their personal and professional identities separate in public.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems straight-forward. I associated a couple other email aliases with my gmail account, so of course, I want my profile consolidated for all of them. How about: for any account Rapportive allows for a user to "Consolidate this email address into my profile" which generates a confirmation email to that (new) address? If you wanted to be really thorough you could require confirmation click-thru's from the new email address and one or more current email addresses associated with the person's profile. But without this feature Rapportive is really limited in it's usefulness for me on an outgoing basis, though I love it for incoming contacts.
Darren Lancaster
supported this idea
·
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems straight-forward. I associated a couple other email aliases with my gmail account, so of course, I want my profile consolidated for all of them. How about: for any account Rapportive allows for a user to "Consolidate this email address into my profile" which generates a confirmation email to that (new) address? If you wanted to be really thorough you could require confirmation click-thru's from the new email address and one or more current email addresses associated with the person's profile. But without this feature Rapportive is really limited in it's usefulness for me on an outgoing basis, though I love it for incoming contacts.