Gmail and Google Contacts, brought together by Rapportive (YC S10)

This is great - I've been using Rapportive, and I also use Google Contacts as my main address book.<p>The problem with Google Contacts, for me, has been that it takes a long time to load --- sometimes as long as 20 seconds. I've always found this odd, and expected it to speed up eventually, because Google is supposed to be obsessed by speed...

"Except there's a problem. When a contact emails you back, you don't see their business card. If you want to phone them, you have to jump from Gmail to Google Contacts via a series of clicks just to even see their number. This is crazy..."<p>Hover over the sender name in an email or the inbox and a 'card' pops up with picture etc. Click their name to see all details. 1 click, not too crazy.

Very nice addition.<p>The first thing I noticed is many of my Google Contact entries are woefully out of date -- even for my own wife, yikes. Once I made the change, it does not seem to have updated her phone number.<p>Have I missed something? Or could this be slow because it's a new feature everyone is playing with?

Rapportive is a great plug-in, but I'm still curious about the upcoming premium version alluded to by one of the founders on Quora:<p><a href="http://www.quora.com/What-is-Rapportives-business-model" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/What-is-Rapportives-business-model</a>

Does Rapportive support reformatting of phone numbers? I just realized that quite a few of my numbers are in different formats and would love an app that puts things in standard +(country) (rest of number) format.<p>Also, is the Rapportive support bidirectional? I.e. data discovered is written back to Google Contacts. This way, any changes would be auto propogated down to my mobile device.

I really enjoy using Rapportive. The only thing I feel it lacks is the ability to join my personal address book in Gmail and my contacts in Google Apps (without merging the libraries, but just searching in both for data and notes).