Venture Capitalists back Etacts Inc. whose Etacts Gmail Plug-In Aims to become a Unified Box for Messages

At the Wall Street Journal blog Venture Capital Dispatch, Tomio Geron in Newly Seeded Etacts Seeking Holy Grail Of The Unified Inbox writes about the e-mail information glut and the proliferation of social networking messages from various network providers that, inter alia:

"A new start-up, Etacts Inc., is attempting to unify all these messages into one place, focusing on people who have to stay in touch with contacts for their jobs....

Etacts' Gmail plug-in organizes email, providing recent conversations with a contact and basic information about the sender through sites such as LinkedIn. Etacts also brings in messages from social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter."

Crossposted from LawPundit.