Gmail added new People Widget

The people widget located at the top right of youre message allows you to see contextual information about the people you are interacting with in Gmail

You can communicate with individual contacts easily through the people widget, or just use it to find basic information. Simply click on the contact’s name on the right side. From there, you’ll see:

• Information about your contact, which may include information such as their email address or occupation. This information comes from your account’s Contact Manager.
• Recent buzzes your contact has posted that are visible to you
• Recent email your contact sent you
• Google Calendar events if your contact’s Calendar is shared with you
• Google documents shared with both you and the contact

You’ll also be able to easily email, chat, or call your contacts using the call phones in Gmail feature, or edit contact details and settings.

 If you have several contacts on an email thread, you can look up individual contact information as described above, by clicking the contact’s name in the People widget list, which will open an expanded view of information about that contact. On a thread with many recipients, contacts are listed in order of who last responded on the thread, who is currently online and available to chat, contacts that whose chat status are set to ‘Busy’, contacts whose chat status are ‘Idle,’ and then contacts who you haven’t yet invited to chat before. You can also interact with the whole group by using features like: Start a group chat Schedule a Google Calendar event with this group Compose a new email message with all recipients on the thread

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