Mingly is a browser extension that lets you make much better sense of your Gmail contacts. Available for Firefox and Chrome, Mingly lets you know absolutely everything your contacts are doing. If they change jobs, you’ll know it. If they get a promotion, you’ll know it. If they’re hosting a party, you’ll know it. You’ll know everything, all the time. And you’ll be able to get in touch with your friends, and congratulate them or say whatever words of support you want them to hear. And you can also set down reminders for these events that you wouldn’t really like to miss

Mingly, then, does nothing short of turning your inbox into a social network. This extension allows you to interact with contacts in ways that go well beyond what your average email provider lets you do. It could be said that Mingly is a hybrid, a kind of social address book that brings the best of different platforms together.