This past Monday, April 12 2010, Network Hippo relaunched their site to the public.  Network Hippo is a social CRM that simplifies and organizes a users contacts across multiple social networks.  Currently Network Hippo allows you to sync up with Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and linkedIn.  Once you have synced all your contacts you are able to merge data across all networks and organize them within groups.

Something I found interesting was their addition of social tools to leverage your network.  Network Hippo allows you to create "Missions," where you can create specific projects like "What should we name this product," set certain parameters for the project and send it out to your network to be crowd sourced. Along side with social tools they also have an application library.

Users have access to an application library that is filled with a mix of free and premium applications including Zendesk, Mail Chimp, Salesforce.

We had a chance to speak with CEO of Network Hippo Scott Annan.  He gives us a an overview of Network Hippo, and how Network Hippo can help you build more direct relationships within your network.