I'm reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferazzi (not a great book, but highlights the importance of sustaining relationships) and I'm trying to find something online to help me with what will be an incredibly tedious task if I don't.<p>I know about Plaxo and LinkedIn, but neither does quite what I want. I need something that lets me keep track of when I last spoke to someone and lets me tag people as being in different categories (i.e. business contact, old friend, acquaintance, etc.). <p>Anyone know of something out there that can do this?
I'm actually working on one: <a href="http://muchcloser.com" rel="nofollow">http://muchcloser.com</a>.<p>It's definitely not ready for prime time yet and I'm looking for a co-founder(s). (Who knows maybe we can submit to the YCombinator winter application...)<p>I'm still debating whether I should keep user registration open since it's not polished enough to mass market... <p>Let me know what you guys think.
Ever heard of ACT! (exclamation point is part of it): <a href="http://www.act.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.act.com/</a>?<p>Not sure they have a web app, but they are one of many popular software apps that accomplish what you are talking about. I remember having ACT! 2.0 in the mid-90s.<p>I'm looking at their site and I don't see a web app, though I'm not sure and I think it would absolutely crazy if they didn't.
I've been puttering around on a Facebook app to do this kind of thing. I've been wanting to make private notes and the like about people on there. I have a horrible memory sometimes and it'd be really nice to have a place to jot things down. I don't think it's overly marketable since most of my Facebook 'friends' are real friends and not many are business colleagues. If you're interested let me know and I'll push it live in the next few days.
I use CiviCRM. It may not be perfect for you, as you seem to have decided on Highrise, but CiviCRM is perfect for me. Integrating it into my existing sites is a breeze.<p><a href="http://civicrm.org/" rel="nofollow">http://civicrm.org/</a>
Salesforce.com or any other CRM product should do something similar to this. Back in the day we used ACT! or GoldMine to do it.<p>I wonder if you could use a gmail API (is there one?) to divine this info automatically?
Here it is: <a href="http://www.act.com/products/web/" rel="nofollow">http://www.act.com/products/web/</a>, but it still doesn't look like simply the personal version just on the Web.