Presentation of organized personal and public data using communication mediums

1. A method comprising:

storing, via a computing device, in a searchable database, information associated with an attachment to an email message from a person;

parsing, via the computing device, the attachment or the email message in order to identify one or more keywords;

developing, via the computing device, a personal profile based on the one or more identified keywords;

extracting, via the computing device, links present in a plurality of email messages received from the person, where each of the links is a link to a web page;

storing, in the searchable database, content obtained from a plurality of web pages linked to by the links;

presenting, via the computing device, content based on the personal profile, the content comprising content obtained from the searchable database;

receiving, via the computing device, a query comprising search terms;

in response to receiving the query, displaying, via the computing device, text from the searchable database for a first web page of the plurality of web pages, wherein the search terms are found in the text of the first web page;

determining, via the computing device, a ranking for the links based on a frequency of occurrence in the plurality of email messages; and

displaying, via the computing device, the links in an order based on the ranking.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying an email thread associated with the attachment;

determining whether the email thread includes one or more additional attachments; and

in response to determining that the email thread includes the one or more additional attachments, consolidating the attachment, the metadata and the email thread.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining a collaboration history associated with the attachment using the metadata.

4. The method of claim 3 , where storing the metadata in a searchable database includes storing the collaboration history in the searchable database, the collaboration history being established based on an analysis of the metadata.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a voting status associated with the attachment, the voting status indicative of a characteristic of the attachment; and

where the information stored in the searchable database includes the voting status.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

indicating to a recipient of the email message whether a sender of the email message is internal or external to a group associated with the recipient.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing an email attachment information view configured to present content of the attachment.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

displaying a preview of the attachment through the email attachment information view.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying one or more related email attachments associated with the attachment based on one or more predetermined criteria; and

presenting the attachment and the related email attachments.

10. The method of claim 9 , where identifying the one or more related email attachments includes:

identifying one or more email threads associated with the attachment; and

identifying one or more related email attachments contained in the one or more identified email threads.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving one or more search queries;

retrieving, in the searchable database, one or more attachments associated with the one or more search queries; and

presenting the one or more retrieved attachments.

12. The method of claim 11 , where receiving the one or more search queries includes receiving one or more search queries specifying at least one of a date range, a sender, a recipient, or an attachment type.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

categorizing one or more attachments stored in the searchable database; and

ranking the one or more categorized attachments based on one or more predetermined criteria.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

selecting one or more attachments stored in the searchable database;

performing a document comparison between the selected attachments; and

identifying a difference between the selected attachments.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a query associated with an attachment;

retrieving an attachment from the searchable database based on the query; and

displaying information associated with the retrieved attachment.

16. The method of claim 1 , where the links are web URLs.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon computer-readable instructions, that when executed by at least one processor associated with a computing device, perform:

storing, in a database, metadata associated with an attachment to a message from a person;

parsing, via the computing device, the attachment or the email message in order to identify one or more keywords;

extracting, via the computing device, links present in a plurality of email messages received from the person, where each of the links is a link to a web page;

storing, in the database, content obtained from a plurality of web pages linked to by the links;

presenting, via the computing device, content based on a personal profile, the content comprising content obtained from the database, the personal profile based on the one or more identified keywords;

receiving, via the computing device, a query comprising search terms;

in response to receiving the query, displaying, via the computing device, text from the database for a first web page of the plurality of web pages, wherein the search terms are found in the text of the first web page;

determining a ranking for the links based on uniqueness of each link as related to other links in messages received from the person; and

displaying the links in an order based on the ranking.

18. A system comprising:

a database for storing metadata associated with an attachment to a message from a person; and

at least one processor coupled to communicate with the database and configured to:

parse the attachment to identify one or more keywords;

develop a personal profile based on the one or more identified keywords;

extract links present in a plurality of messages received from the person, where each of the links is a link to a web page;

store, in the database, content obtained from a plurality of web pages linked to by the links;

present content based on the personal profile, the content comprising content obtained from the database;

receive a query comprising search terms;

in response to receiving the query, display text from the database for a first web page of the plurality of web pages, wherein the search terms are found in the text of the first web page;

determine a ranking for the links based on a frequency of occurrence in the plurality of messages;

add the links to a person profile information view for the person; and

present the person profile information view, the links being displayed in an order based on the ranking.

19. The system of claim 18 , where the metadata includes information selected from the group consisting of: related attachments, related people, related conversations, related web content, revision histories, and combinations of the foregoing.