Comments on: Gmail Contact Manager Does Not Support URLs?

By: New Gmail Contact Manager Turned for the Worse « Technobabbles

New Gmail Contact Manager Turned for the Worse « Technobabbles — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:44:40 +0000

[...] we’re on the subject of Gmail’s contact manager, Zoli Erdos points out that there’s no field for a homepage URL. It’s not a new shortcoming, either; the old [...]

By: TeraHz

TeraHz — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:29:29 +0000

I TOTALLY agree. The lack of flexibility is terrible. The only 2 things I like is the weblink to a map (which is a no-brainer), and the specification of an IM client (though not sure what that is good for, since google chat is only works with gmail addresses).

Please return to the old – faster and trusted.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:37:53 +0000

Gmail has disappointed me time and time again and I have since stopped using it for this and other reasons. I’m now using http://www.octopuscity.com for contact management stuff… it’s free, you can sync contacts in very easily from webmail and Outlook or Excel, it has a ton of space, and it’s also a business networking community. so really other than for email there’s nothing contact-mangement-wise i use any of my email addresses for anymore.

By: Molly Mangan

Molly Mangan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:53:27 +0000

Any word from Google on addressing theses issues? I’m ready to leave GMAIL due to the poor contact management. It seems to have a really immature data model.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:38:36 +0000

Yes, I haven’t played with this before, but you’re right, you have to select them first, than add. It might be a bit of hassle to create a group of 10 from a contact list of 1000+

By: eszter

eszter — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:56:28 +0000

Definitely a step (or two or three) backwards. And am I right that it’s no longer possible to create a group just by typing in a bunch of addresses? Or am I missing something as well? (What I mean is that previously you could just start typing in a bunch of addresses and it would create a group whereas now you have to add contacts one-by-one.)

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:15:45 +0000

Ouch, sorry… fixed.

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:52:01 +0000

Call it vanity, but could you put the ‘1′ into my name above? Thanks. (You’re welcome to delete this comment once it’s been acted on.)

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:15:52 +0000

No wonder Plaxo and others (there’s this Spanning Thingie around?) are having a hard time synchronizing this data mess…

By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:00:53 +0000

Yeah, that’s not good. But worse yet, it uses one big blob for mailing address instead of having fields for aaddress, city, state/region, postal code, etc. I’m optimistic they’re working on that as we speak.

-c