Webmail as a Social Networking App
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Written By Drupad Sil | April 30, 2008 | Share This
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Some coverage on a cool webmail service that is innovative enough to compete with the likes of Gmail and Yahoo Mail. At first glance, Zenbe looks like an ordinary mail service. Look a little deeper, and you’ll find a calendar, task list, address book (all available through a sidebar), a tab that lets you browse all attachments, viewable by type, and finally a Facebook tab that lets you see your friends’ updates.
If that’s not enough for you, don’t worry: we haven’t even hit the big idea yet. TechCrunch’s Mark Hendrickson describes Zenbe’s notable function:
“Zenbe’s big idea, however, consists of a feature called “ZenPages” that are intended to help you organize your email into projects or topics. Instead of just putting messages into folders… you can assign messages to ZenPages with specially designated tags.
…This lets groups collaborate around email without having to CC each other on every single one. Calendar events can also be shared this way.
In addition to sharing emails and calendars, you can install a range of other default widgets: a group task list, an agenda, a discussion thread, and a list of relevant links. But here’s where your imagination should take off: Zenbe also plans to allow 3rd-party apps onto thses pages, ones that have direct access to users’ emails.”
It’s clear that this is a huge opportunity for email to move into the realm of social networking, in a sense. There are already several third-party integrations announced, including YouTube and Flickr. Unfortunately, Zenbe is still in private beta, but we’ll be looking for the startup to make ripples when it eventually goes live.
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Maybe this:
you CANNOT PERMANENTLY DELETE ÁNY EMAIL that ever arrives or flows through these mailservers!
Only “someone” with unlimited resources would hire expensive highly secured multi-terabyte servers in Dallas,Texas to
offer a FREE mailservice that remembers EVERYTHING (not only all your passwords-updates,but even all your spam!)FOREVER!
Think TWICE!