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Wednesday 20 August, 2008
By  Srikant Sreenivasan   12:10 | 20/May/2008 |  0 Comment(s)
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More on Inbox 2.0

As people swim in ever increasing volumes of email, a new bunch of start-ups are trying to make your email experience better. This is part 2 of my earlier post on the same topic.

 

ClearContext has a free Outlook add-in that helps you to organize and deal with email in a much more efficient manner. One innovative feature is the Attachment explorer that gives an Explorer-like view of all the attachments in your Inbox. They also have a paid version that allows email to be treated like “projects”.

 

ZenBe offers an integrated experience to users so that all your email, calendars, contacts, etc appear in one single view. ZenBe is extensible, allowing you to add modules from third parties. See what your Facebook friends are up to at a glance, chat with your Gtalk buddies, scan your favorite RSS feeds, all without leaving your email.

 

It is becoming more apparent that the worlds of Email and Social Networks are converging and Fuser is a nice way to manage all your online communications within one window. So you simply login to Fuser and it automatically gets all your inboxes from FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, etc to an unified inbox.

 

Orgoo takes the single email experience to the extreme and allows all your emails, instant messages, SMS, video chats and more to come together into one unified experience.

 

MessageDance takes another approach to content creation. MessageDance is a platform for sharing digital content and conversations from your social sites and through email. Publish just once and your content will be shared to all of the places you hang out.

 

If you thought GMail was pushing the envelope on web interface design, then think again. Slimail is a service that enhances the Gmail experience with new capabilities like streaming video, no duplicate emails and attachments, etc.

 

Orla is an Outlook add-in that helps organize and manage your time better. They have an innovative Ditch, Deal, Delegate and Decide toolbar that allows users to prioritize email.

 

Xoopit mines your Inbox and lets you find pictures, video and files that you can share with YouTube, flickr, shutterfly, Kodak and Picasa. Xoopit works with both GMail and iGoogle.

 

Over the next year or so, we can expect future versions of popular web mail and desktop email clients to also start having some of the above features.

 

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