Thanks to all our beta users who have taken the time to give us great quality feedback via our surveys, Tweets, support tickets etc. We really appreciate all your suggestions about how to improve Silentale to make it even more useful, and we’re busy working on rolling out the most requested features as fast as we can.

One of your top requests was to automatically present your contacts by categories in the People Book, so that you can view your contacts grouped by how you’re connected to them, as well as see how to reach them. So we’ve reorganized the People Book into 3 columns:

The left column organizes your contacts by the different sources you’ve connected.

“My Contacts” is a consolidated view of your:

• LinkedIn Connections = first-degree connections from your Linkedin account(s)
• Facebook Friends = friends from your Facebook account(s)
• Twitter Contacts = followers, followees and recipients (of @ direct messages and replies) of your twitter account(s)
• Google Contacts = contacts from your Google Contact address book(s)
• Email Recipients  = people to whom you sent a message/reply at least once by email

“Uncategorized” are the people who have sent you a message, but don’t fit in any of the other “My Contacts” categories, mostly “the noise” made up of newsletters, spam, automated or service emails, etc. We split your Email contacts into these 2 categories so you can better find who you’ve actually communicated with.

The middle column lists the contacts in that category, and displays a preview including their name, picture (when available), and small icons that now indicate which contact details have been captured, for instance, their LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter profiles as well as email addresses.

And finally, the right colum provides details for a highlighted individual contact, including a digest of their different profiles. You can click on any of the hyperlinked contact details to go directly to their profile page or compose a message. You can also click to see all the archived messages you’ve exchanged with them.

We hope those changes will streamline your use of the People Book. This is just the first step in reorganizing the functionality of the site, including adding filters for messages, so stay tuned for more improvements coming soon!

After loads of requests, we’re happy to announce the release of our LinkedIn contacts connector, thanks to their recent API release.

From now on, you can see your contacts’ LinkedIn profiles next to their email addresses, phone numbers, Facebook and Twitter profiles, all in one unified and constantly updated view.

To add your LinkedIn contacts, just go to your Connectors page, click on “Add” next to LinkedIn contacts under the “Add a Connector” section on the right, and authorise your LinkedIn account (via Oauth), or just click here to go directly there.

Then go to your People Book and check out all your contacts with the LinkedIn icon!

Plus you can find all the information you’ve tracked about your Linkedin connections by entering his/her name in the “search everything” field.

This should be particularly useful for those of you who interact with a large business network. You no longer have to browse your address book, hunt through your email folders, or explore the twitter galaxy to check if or how you know this Linkedin person. With Silentale, you’ll know it instantly.

And another bonus is you no longer have a tedious search or synchronization process to consolidate your contacts’ details with their Linkedin profile. Silentale does it automatically for you.

Let us know what you think, and feel free to spread the word.

p.s. we know you also want LinkedIn messages, please lobby LinkedIn to open their API!