Comments on: Worlds Worst Email App Gets Worse: Aircraft Simulation Meets Inbox

By: Edner

Edner — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:01:10 +0000

seriously, i can´t believe this is real.. who paid for this stupid idea? how people are involved in such a stupidness project… is this truly for real?

By: Agoracom - TC40 Sponsor

Agoracom - TC40 Sponsor — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:11:10 +0000

Say what you will but “3D Mailbox” is funny. I went over to the site, checked out the videos/photos and it made me laugh. Then I came over here to read 79 comments (which I’ve never done) and laughed some more.

I’ll never use 3DMB but I’ll watch more of their videos as they release future generations…more than I can say for the plethora of “me too” apps I see here.

Regards,
George

By: mark

mark — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:22:25 +0000

While I have trouble believing this is real, doesn’t anyone remember the mac and flying toasters or that dog that ran around on the desktop dragging icons around? I’d include Xroach but I don’t think anyone ever made money off that.

Come to think of it, I miss Xroach.

By: Aloy's Lair

Aloy's Lair — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:36:41 +0000

3D Mailbox Delivers Your E-Mail in B747s…

Featuring incredible 3D graphics, see your e-mail come to life from any angle! From runway to resort, your e-mail pulses with fun and excitement like never before. It’s an email universe!

3D Mailbox delivers a fantastic, smarter e-mail experie…

By: John Stoltenborg

John Stoltenborg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:25:23 +0000

Someone make one for Facebook so I can watch my new friends fly in as planes.

By: Tell Dodo

Tell Dodo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:05:45 +0000

What I envisioned is a flight sim that lets me load my email on a plane, then lets *me* fly it over the internet as if each hop were an airway, and then *land* it into the mailbox/airport of the recipient.

This is more like an airport simulator than a flight simulator…

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:50:44 +0000

“Worlds Worst Email App Gets Worse”
I thought you were talking about Lotus Notes! argh!

Worlds Worst Email App Gets Worse

By: Exchange3D

Exchange3D — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:34:22 +0000

Man…. this is retarded indeed

By: Carsten K.

Carsten K. — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:25:16 +0000

In a post-9/11 world, I think it’s in really bad taste to do ANYTHING with planes. Do they have them fly into buildings? I mean, that’s just sick.

And who cares if a South African Airways plane arrives from my buddy in Johannesburg? Do I really want to hear a South African accent talking to some real controller in LAX just to alert me to my mail arriving? Do I really want to feel like I’m in charge of one of the world’s major airports instead of just receiving a chunk of text? It’s sicko.

By: jackmayhofferr

jackmayhofferr — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:59:51 +0000

waiting eagerly for the Adult Version

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:50:16 +0000

You know, the irony is that with TechCrunch’s extensive coverage of 3d mailbox, the site probably has more users/visitors than most useful websites:P

By: Shiro Karataki

Shiro Karataki — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:48:08 +0000

I like 3d email!

By: Graham greene

Graham greene — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:34:47 +0000

It is a joke…….it is a funny one and it worked…..many people believed it

By: Edward Domain

Edward Domain — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:51:13 +0000

Well, I’ll say this: this article sure has generated a hell of a lot of comments! Sure everyone is slamming it, but a few years from now there will be an article on hilarious new media bombs/busts and you all know 3D Mail will be in it and you’ll get a little nostalgic laugh out of it. Like the “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” dancing banana perhaps. Of course, the dancing banana didn’t make money either.

3D Mail is definitely in the “love to hate it” category. Hilarious

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:48:39 +0000

this reminds me of the mom to the kid “open wide, here comes the airplane” *whirls spoon around head*

By: Ryan H

Ryan H — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:46:49 +0000

Duncan, can you review my app? Its an email spam filter, but instead of it doing its job in the background, I visually represent the spam filter as a fat concert bouncer, who stops evil spam from climbing on stage of my desktop. I’ve put in some pretty cool body slams and sleeper holds to keep it interesting. (j/k)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:45:11 +0000

Catherine #56 is a whore.

By: Mark Woodman

Mark Woodman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:27:31 +0000

@55, that is.

By: Mark Woodman

Mark Woodman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:26:53 +0000

Congrats Vinny Pickles @65, you’ve officially become a troll and fulfilled Godwin’s Law in one swell foop.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:25:15 +0000

Oh come on! Nothing wrong with this. It’s so unique that it get’s everyone’s attention. I agree with #45, I want the hot avatars again not the planes.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:21:10 +0000

I have a 3D mail box so FUCK YOU Duncan.

By: Pete Iannone

Pete Iannone — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:10:24 +0000

@Rick Desmouceaux

yeah, I read about him in SmartMoney last summer. They were the first to pick this up. “SmartMoney”…. coincidence? I don’t think so. It’s the Rockefeller stuff that got him picked up. He probably paid off Duncan, too.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:03:31 +0000

Yeah, but if they had used the proper buzz words like “Semantic Web,” “Virtual World,” “Web 3.0″, “Yada, yada, yada,” they’d be hailed as the next coming of GooFaceTube.

By: Avinash

Avinash — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:56:57 +0000

Are these people serious??? 3D email box?? What a farce? These folks should get a life.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:51:22 +0000

I don’t know what everyone’s problem is. I’ve been searching for a way to fill up some screen real-estate with something useless and distracting. If it works like I think it will, maybe it can even help me get to the information I need even slower!

What brilliant idea.