But the other thing with plugins is it seems difficult to cover both Outlook and Gmail. Even Xobni who has a shitload of money are still Outlook only, even though they've been talking about doing Gmail as well for ever.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Charles Ma <chuck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to add to the list of companies in that space, boomerang for gmail > plugin (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) lets you schedule emails to be > sent later and 'snoozes' email to view later like you described. > > I personally like the plugin approach because it let's you keep using the > same email client you're familiar with (in this case gmail). > > > Cheers, > > Charles > > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Bart Jellema <b...@rtje.net> wrote: > >> Hi Chris, thanks for that, I hadn't seen it yet... it's an interesting >> site, but still doesn't really solve the problem I think. There are >> many products out there that solve part of the problem, we'd like to >> combine the best of these solutions and add a few ideas of our own. >> >> I've looked at a fair few solutions out there: >> otherinbox.com ($3.8M+ in funding) >> xobni.com ($30M+ in funding) >> sanebox.com >> liaise.com (funding from Southern Cross?) >> clearcontext.com ($500k funding) >> nutshellmail.com >> GMail Priority Inbox >> GMail labs features >> unsubscribe.com ($2.1M+ in funding) >> Spokeo.com >> >> This is great because it validates that there is a problem and a need >> for a solution. >> >> >> On Jan 10, 3:45 pm, Chris Were <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi Bart, >> > >> > Have you seen threadsy.com? It sounds similar. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Chris >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Bart Jellema <b...@rtje.net> wrote: >> > > Project Inbox ZERO – Who wants to join? >> > >> > >http://blog.bartjellema.com/2011/01/10/project-inbox-zero-who-wants-t. >> .. >> > >> > > Email used to be fun. Sometimes I got an email, I responded to it and >> > > all was good. Now I get 100 emails a day and spent way too much time >> > > dealing with the dreaded email. At the same time email clients have >> > > hardly changed in the last 20 years. We now have HTML emails >> > > (unfortunately) and threading (thanks gmail!). But that’s about it. >> > > It’s time to reinvent this tool to bring it into this day and age. >> > > This is the goal of Project Inbox ZERO. >> > >> > > Imagine an inbox that isn’t cluttered with facebook notifications and >> > > newsletters, but only has “real” emails and the other messages are >> > > converted into what they actually are: notifications and newsletters. >> > > Do you ever find yourself scrolling back through emails trying to find >> > > someones phone number? What if your email client was smart enough to >> > > automatically collect and organize this information from your emails? >> > > How nice would it be if you had all relevant information at your >> > > fingertips when you received an email from someone: Some photos, their >> > > latest twitter updates, what social sites they are on and whether you >> > > have connected yet. >> > >> > > Are reply and forward really the only 2 things we do with emails? What >> > > about things like: “Turn into todo item”, “Snooze”, “Enter this >> > > invoice into my accounting system”, “Send a canned response”, “This >> > > email is way too long, please summerize”, etc, etc >> > >> > > Personally I believe email clients are still stuck in the 80′s and >> > > it’s time to build an email client for this day and age. Let’s make >> > > email fun again! I’ve started development and I’m looking for co- >> > > founders that are as excited about this as I am to join Project Inbox >> > > ZERO. Interested? You should contact me now! >> > >> > > Contact details:http://blog.bartjellema.com/about/ >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon >> Beach >> > > Australia mailing list. >> > >> > > Guidelines on discussion: >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e13. >> .. >> > >> > > No lurkers! 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