It's probably not a good sign that I'm this excited about an email widget, but there you go.
Google has just announced that it's rolling out a new feature over the next week called the People Widget — a small sidebar to the right of email messages that features contextual information about the people you're interacting with in Gmail. I don't have the feature active yet so I'm going by the screenshots provided, but it looks like the widget includes each person's job title, recent email exchanges you've had with them, photo, calendar availability, and shared Google Docs.
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