18. The computer-readable medium of claim 16 , comprising further instructions that cause the processor to: receive an indication from the client application of a second name of a second communication participant associated with the communication instance, wherein the indication from the client application is associated with the second communication participant; and provide second one or more names of contextual information files associated with a different selected contextual information file type to the client application.
16. A computer-readable medium comprising one or more of an optical disk, a solid state memory device, or a magnetic storage device and storing instructions thereon that when executed cause a processor to: establish a communication instance between a user computing device executing a client application and at least one remote communication device associated with a communication participant; determine a name of the communication participant associated with the communication instance based on a communication identifier associated with the communication participant involved in the communication instance; access a plurality of contextual information sources to identify contextual information associated with the communication participant, wherein each of the plurality of contextual information sources store contextual information by contextual information type; determine that the identified contextual information is of at least two differing contextual information file types, each of the at least two differing contextual information file types associated with at least one file further associated with the communication participant and stored on the plurality of contextual information sources, the plurality of contextual information sources being separate from the remote communication device; provide the at least two differing contextual information file types to the client application; receive a request from the client application indicating a selected contextual information file type, wherein the selected contextual information file type is selected from the at least two differing contextual information file types, and wherein the request is further associated with the communication participant; provide one or more names of contextual information files of the selected contextual information file type to the client application; and provide a thumbnail image of a selected one of the one or more names of the contextual information files having the selected contextual information file type to the client application.