There are over 600,000,000 Microsoft Outlook installs in the world (according to our friends on the MS Outlook product team over in Redmond) making it one of the most widely used knowledge worker applications around.  With such a huge install base, there are many different product add-ins to improve the experience, enhance search, and integrate to various different applications and information services including the recent addition of the Outlook Social Connector directly by Microsoft.  Here’s an interview with Gist CEO T.A. McCann on Techflash about how it fits with what we are doing at Gist.

We think this innovation is fantastic and are focused on further enhancing the user experience inside Outlook by bringing the profiles we create and importance we determine into the application.  Oh, and we do a pretty nice job helping you find that link, attachment, or previous email conversation with a contact.

At Gist, our goal is to put the information about your most important contacts and companies into the places where you already spend your time.  Millions live in Outlook everyday and that is why we built the Gist Outlook Plugin to bring your email, calendar, and address book to life.

Below is a quick product tour of how Gist works inside Outlook.  Download it (you’ll need to set up an account first if you don’t already have one but can login directly from Outlook once set up), and give it a try!