Comments on: 9cays Taking The Pain Out Of Group Email http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/ Startup and Technology News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:04:51 -0800 hourly 1 By: GetSpot Now » 9Cays start the wave of Group Email http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-26029 GetSpot Now » 9Cays start the wave of Group Email Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:37:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-26029 [...] Imagine if your office not allow you to open Instant Messager, your boss is watching at the back of you, the only way you can contact with your friends, later what time meet up for dinner, this service might be a good choice ? forget to add this, some good review from techcrunch Currently 9cays’s idea still sound a bit too simple, i wonder what new feature will they added soon ? Oh forget to let you know by default without register you can start the conversation up to 3 people , if you signup then there are not restriction of involved email. [...] [...] Imagine if your office not allow you to open Instant Messager, your boss is watching at the back of you, the only way you can contact with your friends, later what time meet up for dinner, this service might be a good choice ? forget to add this, some good review from techcrunch Currently 9cays’s idea still sound a bit too simple, i wonder what new feature will they added soon ? Oh forget to let you know by default without register you can start the conversation up to 3 people , if you signup then there are not restriction of involved email. [...]

]]> By: Raul Vera » Blog Archive » Creando grupos de correo con 9cays http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-24483 Raul Vera » Blog Archive » Creando grupos de correo con 9cays Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:49:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-24483 [...] Vía | TenchCrunchSitio Oficial | 9cays [...] [...] Vía | TenchCrunchSitio Oficial | 9cays [...]

]]> By: nanek http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20954 nanek Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:05:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20954 Alot like Conversate, no? Skobee does this too, with nice features specifically for making plans. http://conversate.org/ http://skobee.com/ Alot like Conversate, no? Skobee does this too, with nice features specifically for making plans.
http://conversate.org/
http://skobee.com/

]]> By: Saul Weiner http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20942 Saul Weiner Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:52:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20942 How do they handle inbox deliverability? How do they handle inbox deliverability?

]]> By: Craig Baker http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20891 Craig Baker Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:41:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20891 I like the concept, it's super simple and it works. But I just can't help but think, maybe email, the first killer app of the internet, isn't the best tool for group based conversations. I like the concept, it’s super simple and it works. But I just can’t help but think, maybe email, the first killer app of the internet, isn’t the best tool for group based conversations.

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20887 Andy Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:36:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20887 I see the problem but it's rarely had me bashing my head against my desk. Maybe it's an annoyance every now and then. So now rather than just having to search my outlook / gmail box I also have to try and remember what threads went on via your site? I don't believe this will work but on the positive side, I'm another fan of your logo. Very cool logo. I see the problem but it’s rarely had me bashing my head against my desk. Maybe it’s an annoyance every now and then.

So now rather than just having to search my outlook / gmail box I also have to try and remember what threads went on via your site?

I don’t believe this will work but on the positive side, I’m another fan of your logo. Very cool logo.

]]> By: Cris 'atariboy' Pearson http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20865 Cris 'atariboy' Pearson Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:45:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20865 I see it that both campfire and 9cays blur the edges of IM, email and web, but from opposite directions. Each filling different needs in the cross over. I see it that both campfire and 9cays blur the edges of IM, email and web, but from opposite directions. Each filling different needs in the cross over.

]]> By: Blaze http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20862 Blaze Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:05:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20862 I like the idea. I think it could work great for business. Bill M, good point about the logo haha, but it is nonetheless good and somewhat original. I like the idea. I think it could work great for business.

Bill M, good point about the logo haha, but it is nonetheless good and somewhat original.

]]> By: Go Flock Yourself » Blog Archive » 9cays? We’ll stick with Campfire. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20857 Go Flock Yourself » Blog Archive » 9cays? We’ll stick with Campfire. Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:37:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20857 [...] As you may have noticed, we happen to have a chat room inhabited by outstanding citizens and mamma’s girls. 9cays is apparently going to attempt to get close to where Campfire is now. Notice, however, how they tried to distance themselves from “quick group chats” by being “easier than group email”. [...] [...] As you may have noticed, we happen to have a chat room inhabited by outstanding citizens and mamma’s girls. 9cays is apparently going to attempt to get close to where Campfire is now. Notice, however, how they tried to distance themselves from “quick group chats” by being “easier than group email”. [...]

]]> By: Kenneth Jr http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20838 Kenneth Jr Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:32:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20838 "The aim of 9cays...9cays has been in development for 6 months and they are sticking to their philosophy that there should be an easier way to group ad hoc conversations online...In the future 9cays will be adding more functionality...9cays can fill a gap" - sounds like all buzz and no sting - “The aim of 9cays…9cays has been in development for 6 months and they are sticking to their philosophy that there should be an easier way to group ad hoc conversations online…In the future 9cays will be adding more functionality…9cays can fill a gap”
- sounds like all buzz and no sting -

]]> By: Pete Yandell http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20836 Pete Yandell Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:28:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20836 Joel: A 9cays conversation is much more lightweight than something like a Google or Yahoo group. You can think of a 9cays conversation as a mini-group for a one-off discussion. The big difference is in setup. Setting up a Google or Yahoo group requires filling out web forms, making decisions about admin and moderation, etc. To start a 9cays conversation, on the other hand, you just e-mail a group of people and CC go@9cays.com, and we do the rest of the work for you. (You have to have signed up to 9cays first: https://9cays.com/signup) What you might want to do later is take your little ad hoc 9cays conversation, and turn it into a formal group with a moderator, etc. That's one of the pieces of the 9cays puzzle that's yet to be built. Joel:

A 9cays conversation is much more lightweight than something like a Google or Yahoo group. You can think of a 9cays conversation as a mini-group for a one-off discussion.

The big difference is in setup. Setting up a Google or Yahoo group requires filling out web forms, making decisions about admin and moderation, etc. To start a 9cays conversation, on the other hand, you just e-mail a group of people and CC go@9cays.com, and we do the rest of the work for you. (You have to have signed up to 9cays first: https://9cays.com/signup)

What you might want to do later is take your little ad hoc 9cays conversation, and turn it into a formal group with a moderator, etc. That’s one of the pieces of the 9cays puzzle that’s yet to be built.

]]> By: Joel M. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20835 Joel M. Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:20:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20835 So... 9cays is much like Google groups? So… 9cays is much like Google groups?

]]> By: Chrono Cr@cker http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20832 Chrono Cr@cker Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:01:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20832 There seriously is nothing new with 9Cays. Unless it incorporates some new and innovative features, I really have no reason to go there. There seriously is nothing new with 9Cays. Unless it incorporates some new and innovative features, I really have no reason to go there.

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20820 Michael Arrington Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:32:53 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20820 Pete - love the logo, regardless of the messaging. :-) Pete – love the logo, regardless of the messaging. :-)

]]> By: Pete Yandell http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20815 Pete Yandell Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:27:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20815 Andy: The problem with CCing people a lot of the time is this: Bill e-mails Fred and Mary. Fred decides Bob should be in on the conversation too, so he replies and CCs Bob. Mary replies to the first e-mail and Bob misses out on her reply. Then Fred doesn't want to take part anymore, but still keeps getting everybodys' replies and can't opt out. Later there's an argument about who said what and who got it, and people have to trawl through badly formatted quotes at the bottom of old e-mails to work out what actually happened. So 9cays is good when a) you want to have a group discussion by e-mail but the group is likely to change, or b) when you want a nice permanent record of your e-mail conversation. I'd also add that 9cays will, in the future, do a lot more group communication related things. The current conversations service is the tip of the iceberg. Mike: The number is a bit arbitrary, but coming up with unique names these days is really tricky. Bill: You've got a point about the bottle. Even so, we're quite fond of the logo. Andy:

The problem with CCing people a lot of the time is this:

Bill e-mails Fred and Mary. Fred decides Bob should be in on the conversation too, so he replies and CCs Bob.

Mary replies to the first e-mail and Bob misses out on her reply.

Then Fred doesn’t want to take part anymore, but still keeps getting everybodys’ replies and can’t opt out.

Later there’s an argument about who said what and who got it, and people have to trawl through badly formatted quotes at the bottom of old e-mails to work out what actually happened.

So 9cays is good when a) you want to have a group discussion by e-mail but the group is likely to change, or b) when you want a nice permanent record of your e-mail conversation.

I’d also add that 9cays will, in the future, do a lot more group communication related things. The current conversations service is the tip of the iceberg.

Mike: The number is a bit arbitrary, but coming up with unique names these days is really tricky.

Bill: You’ve got a point about the bottle. Even so, we’re quite fond of the logo.

]]> By: Bill M http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20804 Bill M Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:47:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20804 I like the message-in-a-bottle image - it's good to associate your brand with a communication method that is 99.9999% likely to fail and takes years/decades to complete. I like the message-in-a-bottle image – it’s good to associate your brand with a communication method that is 99.9999% likely to fail and takes years/decades to complete.

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20803 Andy Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:41:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20803 What's wrong with cc'ing people? This looks like a hard-to-market product for an almost non-existant problem. Outlook and the rest of the mail programs are "good enough". Their site is cute though. What’s wrong with cc’ing people? This looks like a hard-to-market product for an almost non-existant problem. Outlook and the rest of the mail programs are “good enough”.

Their site is cute though.

]]> By: Mike Rundle http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20801 Mike Rundle Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:28:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20801 9cays huh :) At least they could have nabbed their own number prefix, like 8, or 7, or 10cays lol. Oh well. 9cays huh :) At least they could have nabbed their own number prefix, like 8, or 7, or 10cays lol. Oh well.

]]> By: Pete Yandell http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20800 Pete Yandell Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:25:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20800 What Nik said. If you want a look at an example conversation web page, have a look at http://9cays.com/conversation/aDUojbjHugsb or http://9cays.com/conversation/DDVbbXIbWonl What Nik said. If you want a look at an example conversation web page, have a look at http://9cays.co...on/aDUojbjHugsb or http://9cays.co...on/DDVbbXIbWonl

]]> By: Nik Cubrilovic http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20796 Nik Cubrilovic Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:22:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20796 its not instant messaging - its group email management its not instant messaging – its group email management

]]> By: Bill M http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/comment-page-1/#comment-20788 Bill M Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:59:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/17/9cays-taking-the-pain-out-of-group-email/#comment-20788 "9cays makes it simple to start a conversation between a group of people - the conversation can be viewed and managed via their web application." web based instant messaging? How about a screen shot? Sloppy! “9cays makes it simple to start a conversation between a group of people – the conversation can be viewed and managed via their web application.”

web based instant messaging? How about a screen shot? Sloppy!

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