I have been running it all day today and want to share my experience and thoughts.
First, our company is about 60 people. And every person I click on is "connected" to everybody, I suppose simply because at some point he or she emailed to the entire company. That makes the entire panel kind of useless.
Same happens to "Previous Conversations with Joe" panel: it contains a bunch of emails most of them I did not even read, because they were announcements and both of us happened to be on the list.
This is a general problem a lot of corporate email users face: we get tons of shit. You are tired of reading it all, because most of the time it is not relevant to you. Stupid announcements about stupid meetings, garage parking crap, financial results and what not. I only want to focus emails that were sent to me or maybe to me plus 1-3 other people. Everything else (well... in my case) is considered to be noise.
Good feedback. We do sort the connected people by how connected we think they are. We're also exploring more advanced ways to rank connections, as well as bringing you the conversations you actually care about.
Please keep in touch with us and let us know what else you need! We made our platform just to develop the stuff you are asking for. As our first beta stabilizes we will be integrating more features and improvements (especially w.r.t. culling the cruft).
This beta is really just the first step in our mission, to get feedback on something that is in the hands of real users.
Sure will do. By the way I should have mentioned things I loved :-) "Previous conversations" panel is very useful even though it has a bit too much noise in it. Connected people started to make sense a bit later (because of your sorting) - all hardware guys are at the bottom of that list: the top 10 are software/HR people. HR got there because of the company-wide announcements, I suppose.
"Previously attached documents" panel is priceless. And, finally, your search is the bomb: just don't over complicate it later on.
First, our company is about 60 people. And every person I click on is "connected" to everybody, I suppose simply because at some point he or she emailed to the entire company. That makes the entire panel kind of useless.
Same happens to "Previous Conversations with Joe" panel: it contains a bunch of emails most of them I did not even read, because they were announcements and both of us happened to be on the list.
This is a general problem a lot of corporate email users face: we get tons of shit. You are tired of reading it all, because most of the time it is not relevant to you. Stupid announcements about stupid meetings, garage parking crap, financial results and what not. I only want to focus emails that were sent to me or maybe to me plus 1-3 other people. Everything else (well... in my case) is considered to be noise.