Zenbe, a social e-mail aggregator which made quite an impression on us when we first reviewed the service, is now out of beta and available to everyone.
With Zenbe, users can import existing e-mail accounts (including Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL Mail) into a single web-based inbox, and view messages by conversation or by person, or by favorite people, in views similar to how social networks present communication streams. The service is a bit slow and seems to contain a few minor bugs, but all in all it’s impressive, not in the least because of its looks.
Zenbe, besides sporting a beautiful interface, is a true platform play that has much more to offer than just e-mail. The app integrates social media such as Twitter and Facebook, allowing users to manage those channels within their e-mail environment. You also get fully integrated calendar, task list, and address book capabilities, easily accessible through an ever-present sidebar.
Another big improvement over regular e-mail is ZenPages, which boasts collaboration features that can help multiple people (whether in a personal or professional environment) keep track of calendars, project status, the latest communications and responsibilities around a given topic.
NYC-based Zenbe also plans to allow more third-party apps onto these pages, including ones that have direct access to users’ e-mails.
On a sidenote: Orgoo once promised to deliver a similar service, but the startup seems to have fallen from the face of the earth. If you’re looking for alternatives, you might want to check out Jubii and Fuser, although they don’t offer the same social network integration Zenbe does.
there was many a time i wanted to integrate mail boxes. how about support for own domain emails?
its free, so i ll give it give a shot anyway
Orgoo page does not even load now. It leads to a page not found. Looks like they did not find proper monetization
what do you think is the monetization channel if the service is free?
I do not use their main product (do not feel the urge), but I do use their side project: lists (http://lists.zenbe.com/) and respective iPhone application and I love it. Not as feature-rich and integrated as rememberthemilk.com, but good enough for me
I don’t think it’s available to everyone
Love these guys! Founder is a friend of mine, from my home town, Bend, Oregon.
Does anybody know who these guys are? Are they for real and are they making any money?
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I love Zenbe, have been using it for months now.
I use Zenbe’s Lists application for the iPhone.
I didn’t even know they had this other huge project that they were working on!
I can say from experience that Zenbe works great on the iPhone and I use it consistently as my grocery list and to do list.
One problem with the iPhone version of the app is that if you make changes to your list on the computer while logged into their website and then go and sync up changes that you made on the iPhone, there tends to be inconsistencies most of the time. Things I checked off become unchecked or vice versa. Also the order of the list can be shifted randomly from time to time. But something a small update can easily fix I am sure!
Other than that it is perfect and these small issues would not stop me from using it.
In case if the account is compromised anyone can get all information from one single inbox.
I like Zenbe but have found it to be deadly slow.
I tried to sign up but it gave me a message saying I would get an invite “soon.” They may have lost the beta label, but the service is still invite-only.
also airset.com is similar.
But less simple, I seem.
go zenbe! FTW! zenbe is the best thing that has happened to webmail
Sorry for the extended hiatus but Orgoo will be back next week with new features to follow shortly.
It’s nice and all, but a little investigation back in April got me doubting the service heavily.
If i wanted to delete an account, they would still collect my email in the background, just not showing it to me.
Can anyone confirm that this is, in fact, not the case anymore. Untill then, i still have my doubts about the integrity of the service.
@Ørv, much has changed since April! That issue was resolved many months ago, and users have much greater control over the deletion of messages and accounts.
Cool site, but still – they require the password and save it on their servers…
In the end, their employees have access to all my mails! I don’t want that.
Why not using authorization (from the mail provider) or something else so no password is required?
I was actually trying to figure out how I could view all my e-mail addresses through one place. I don’t think hotmail or yahoo allow e-mail forwarding which I researched.
Congrats to Zenbe on their launch.
The overall solution space is growing as users feel the need for aggregation and management tools – a trend likely to continue as users face more and more communication options.
BTW, a quick clarification, Fuser does offer full social networking messaging capability for both MySpace and Facebook. We also fully integrate Twitter.
Again, congrats to Zenbe.
Yes, congrats to Zenbe.
Just to clarify, the fetching of email is done using the pop3 protocol which works in AOL, needs to be enabled in gmail, and is available only with the plus versions of yahoo and MSN.
Most of my team has been using Zenbe internally since very early days and it’s been a delight to see it evolve. Zenpages are great for collaboration, and I really love the files tab for finding attachments without having to search for the original email.
Paul
Tried signing up for Zenbe on three different occasions with three different email ids. All three times got the same message – “you’ll soon get message from us in less than 24 hours”.
I’m still waiting to hear from them.