Comments on: Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can’t Wait To Speak With a Human

By: ClearContext Corporate Blog — The Internet’s Killer App – ClearContext Corporate Blog

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:40:28 +0000

[...] the most time working on an app to help manage email. From moderator Erick Schonfeld’s TechCrunch post: "But the app we ended up spending the most time brainstorming was one that Digg’s Kevin [...]

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on First Three Weeks (Part Deux)

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:51:24 +0000

[...] in the mean time, check out as well Techcrunch’s recent blog post talking about something along these very same lines… Kind of makes you wonder, don’t [...]

By: Future Of Web Apps: Thoughts And Ideas | TechBanyan

Future Of Web Apps: Thoughts And Ideas | TechBanyan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:21:44 +0000

[...] Erick Schonfeld is reporting that he moderated a panel where the premise was to come up with a compelling web app in 40 minutes. [...]

By: Justin Goldberg

Justin Goldberg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:18:10 +0000

There needs to be an email bugging app that works with everything, and doesn’t violate your privacy, unlike readnotify.com, which hp used. You want to know if they read the email, and for how long.

By: Wireless Wanders » Blog Archive » Web luminaries fix email and telco issues in 40 mins: telcos take 40 years…

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:09:57 +0000

[...] OK, so I exaggerate, but a bunch of well known Web 2.0 luminaries decided to try fixing email inbox and caller-on-hold problems in 40 minutes. [...]

By: Email Overload | Redfin Corporate Blog

Email Overload | Redfin Corporate Blog — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:47:22 +0000

[...] Arrington complains again today that people are overwhelmed with email. Michael cites a venture capitalist who encourages [...]

By: Rich Rosen

Rich Rosen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:37:00 +0000

FastCall411 offers 2 new voice applications (in limited beta) FastCall is a parallel dialing application. Need a dentist with an appointment open today? We dial as many as required to find the local dentist with availability. Want more than one quote. Stay on the line and TryAnother continues making connections with available local merchants. TryAnother is also great when the first merchant you’ve called doesn’t answer the phone to begin with. The bottle neck in local search is finding a merchant that is not only recommended, but available. http://www.fastcall411.com

By: Justin Goldberg

Justin Goldberg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:43:00 +0000

Because of the emails being forgotten past 50, I now Show 100 conversations per page in gmail. If you’ve got speed, why not?

By: Lisa Price

Lisa Price — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:40:00 +0000

Hi.
You can hear the audio from each of the presentations (apart from Kathy Sierra’s which will be coming soon) at http://futureof.../pastevents.php
Click on the MP3 link under Erick’s name for the panel session audio.
Cheers

By: Lifestreaming App Built in 40 Minutes at FOWA? | Lifestream Blog

Lifestreaming App Built in 40 Minutes at FOWA? | Lifestream Blog — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:40:47 +0000

[...] Schonfeld (from TechCrunch) was one of the members on the panel and he wrote a post about it. What’s also interesting is that he had written a post with a poll prior to the panel asking [...]

By: ClearContext Corporate Weblog

ClearContext Corporate Weblog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:04:41 +0000

the Internet’s Killer App…

Email is the Internet’s killer app, so it’s no surprise to me that, when given the opportunity, the web luminaries at the Future of Web Apps conference chose to design an app to help them with email. In a panel…

By: Jimmy James

Jimmy James — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:31:58 +0000

Those hats make the panelists look like complete douchebags.

By: Ingmar

Ingmar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:35:01 +0000

At least the “who do I still need to reply to” and “who sends a lot more email than he gets from me” (or the other way round) type of questions are easy to answer with Firefox with this extension called “EagleEye”.

http://eagleeye...ourceforge.net/

It also finds “lost friends” which you haven’t contacted for quite some time or allows you to restrict your search to male/female senders/recipients etc.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:20:09 +0000

Ohhhhh, here's an easy one, an rss feed for your email. Gmail has this already, but only through a logged in browser.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:08:47 +0000

What we need is a gmail api. Once we have that (or if we already do, I think) then we create a frontend to it, that is written in Lisp, and would use simple AI to automate certain things and be very friendly to plugin developers to handle specific tasks.

For example, I use eBay’s Saved Searches feature to get the latest items that match a certain search for new items in my inbox. For example, one such saved search is
(ultra160, “ultra 160″) -”Drive Tray” -”host adapter” -”SCSI PCI Card” -”scsi card” -MOTHERBOARD -”SCA Adapter” -”Converter Adapter” -18gb -18.4gb -18.2gb -18.4 -serveraid -”DRIVE ENCLOSURE” -18.2 -cables -cable -9.19gb -9.1gb to 25$.
Another search is the one above without the limitation of 25$.
Another search is scsi (all categories) (items listed as lots)
Yet another one is adaptec raid to 40$
Also I have other saved searches for logitech wireless mice, yankee screwdrives, n64 games to 9$, essential oils, various books, taiyo yuden dvdr, various bulk herbs, rare music cds etc…. But what if I want a custom sort when and only when I am viewing the ebay searches label in gmail? For example, always put the music cd searches first, then the wireless mice, then the
Of course, you could make filters and labels for those specific searches, but I’m always adding new searches and unsubscribing/deleting old ones, which makes it a chore. What showing that days email in a custom sort?

Perhaps email needs a customized latent semantic analysis application, that can figure out what an email means before we ever read it.

I believe the Mahogany Imap email program is written in Python and could be extended and programmed in this way.

Also, I think the idea of getting things done is great. Do the things that take under a minute or so right now, that way the longer tasks aren’t mentally crowded out by the shorter ones.

By: Pete Bargine

Pete Bargine — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:28:29 +0000

It’s not about managing your email, it’s about managing the people you deal with. Software cannot give you better social skills.

Quit giving your main address to everyone you meet a a party. If you get too much email, you are too desperate to make “friends”. Figure out what people want from you and delegate most of them to someone else before they start emailing and calling you.

By: Marco Almondine

Marco Almondine — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:08:15 +0000

How about an automated way to delegate problems that are initiated through email? Something like a social network where your inbox becomes a blog or bug tracker for your underlings. You review their work by looking at the management report rather than manually handing off and tracking every minor issue. Obviously you’d need separate email addresses for personal business and for dealing with higher-ups at work.

Popular people attract hangers-on who hope the popular person can solve all their problems. The key is to have something to offer them (in return for money or some other favor) that in most cases doesn’t involve spending your own time. If you are too overwhelmed with requests to even delegate tasks in a timely manner, then you need to create a “department” to handle the problem and hand off entire classes of issues to it.

By: Noah Parsons

Noah Parsons — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:50:24 +0000

We’re about to launch a public beta of an email product that allows teams to collaborate on email in shared inboxes such as sales@, marketing@ or customerservice@. You can learn more about it and sign up for a beta invitation here:

http://www.emailcenterpro.com/

Email Center Pro allows multiple people to simultaneously work on mail in inboxes that have a high volume of email. It protects you from stepping on a co-worker’s toes and answering the same email twice. You can assign email to people, easily move email from one inbox to another, and respond using templates. The system tracks all user actions so you can see exactly who did what at any time.

If you’re interested, sign up for the beta at the URL above.

By: Danielle Morrill

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:31:51 +0000

ack, I wrote stuff in brackets that looked too much like html.

You can send anything from “s business name in city” to “s cuisine type near street” to Whrrl at 94775 and get detailed information on places nearby (address, phone, street corner, ratings, and more cool stuff)

By: Danielle Morrill

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:29:25 +0000

“Leah Culver of Pownce came up with a white pages service that uses SMS text messages to look up phone numbers.”

Whrrl already does this, too. Text to 94775 with anything from “s in ” to “s near ” and get search results and with detailed information on places throughout the US. I was just in San Francisco and found a place to work from by searching “s free wifi near bush st, sf”, and I only had to walk 2 blocks to get there!

By: markus941

markus941 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:14:01 +0000

the answer to clutter is not more clutter (even if it’s wrapped in a shiny web 2.0 website).

besides, you shouldn’t need a web app to tell you you’re being a d*ck to your mom

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:05:55 +0000

“Blaine Cook of Twitter suggested creating a call-back service that would, in effect, allow you call companies and put them on hold until a human answered. In other words, you would specify what department you want to speak with at a company, and the software would call and go through the phone tree, and digitally push all the right buttons until it got to a human operator, at which point it would ring your phone. I thought this was brilliant.”

The Lypp API already does most of this, and there is a Ruby on Rails plugin for it.

By: Random Girl

Random Girl — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:30:57 +0000

Leah Culver of Pownce came up with a white pages service that uses SMS text messages to look up phone numbers.

Google already does that. I am sorry but where have you guys been? text to 46645 with the business name and zip code or city name. You get the address and phone number back in SMS. With the google search feature, I didn’t even have to actually know the full name of the business. This little service from Google has saved me time so many times.

When we were in SF bay area for a business trip, one guy decided that we must have in-n-out burger for lunch. Being not from around the area, nobody knew where to go from some random parking lot we were in. I got the address of the newest in-n-out with my 3 yr old verizon phone without GPS or any fancy browser just by sending a text msg. This was after the guy with the hand held GPS and 2 guys with iPhones finished typing in and fumbling with slow data load and mistyping and decided that they couldn’t get it.

By: That's a solution?!?

That's a solution?!? — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:48:36 +0000

Create an application that increases the number of emails, alerts, notifications that you need to go through, in order to help you get through the mountain of email you have already !?!

And again some of those people on the panel couldn’t code a compiling line of code if their life depended on it.

By: Don M

Don M — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:46 +0000

Hahahah … the sole reason I clicked thru on my reader was to comment on the hat situation. I’m glad it wasn’t everyone trying to pose as visionaries and was merely a conference gimmick ….

Hahah … as I sit here in a coffee shop wearing my fedora.

-dm