1. A method of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity, the method comprising: detecting by an application, a name of said person or said entity in a frame from a screen of a user device, the application running on hardware of said user device or another device; determining by the application, a presence status for said detected name based on one or more connectivity status for said detected name in one or more other applications and/or one or more databases, where said one or more other applications operate on said user device from which said frame originates and where said one or more databases are accessible on said user device; and providing said presence status for display on said screen of said user device.