Cc:Betty, a free service that helps organize group email threads, is the latest startup to catch the Twitter bug. The email collaboration service is integrating with Twitter, so that users of the service can tweet in and out of a of the collaboration platform, as well as see each other’s latest tweets.
Cc:Betty routes, parses, and organizes email conversations in a simple at-a-glance dashboard so you never have to scour your inbox to find the bits and pieces of a long thread. If you cc “betty@ccbetty.com” on any email, “she” will create a mailspace, which is a webpage, for your entire email thread and will divide important things such as dates, times, people, places, and files and will format them all in one place. It basically maps out your communications for you in an easy-to-see format.
CEO Michael Cerda says that Twitter integration was another way to help users organize all of their communications, including Tweets. Cc:Betty also recently upgraded its service with several useful features, including the ability to see maps, images and documents as large thumbnails in email threads, and a list of people in an email conversation. You can also filter content of the thread by participant. Cc:Betty has raised $1.5 million in seed funding, which was announced in June.
This sounds like one step closer to Google Wave.
Unfortunately who do you think is going to win that battle….
@Chris and @DDavis. Stop being such pussies. Lots of startups succeeded over google… Facebook/MySpace vs. Orkut, YouTube vs. Google Video… hell, even Google maps was a buyout (from the guys making the wave!).
CCBetty also has an advantage- They are out in public, getting feedback from real users, and gaining market-share.
Don’t listen to the scarredy cats CC:Betty, you’re on the right track, just kick ass!
$1.5 million for a company that has no merit in the midst of Google Wave?
Oops…
@Brandon — how can you say “no merit”? CC:betty just got validated by Google, and oh, btw, Google isn’t saying when they intend to release Wave — whatever it ends up being.
Competition is a much different issue. EVERY giant needs competition. Real startup folks know that. Years after I’d done my time at Microsoft, I joined a tiny email startup named Stata Labs. We created Bloomba (Gmail before Gmail, Now WordPerfect Mail). Bloomba was critically acclaimed, minor commercial success, strategic acquisition by Yahoo! We did all of that on a shoestring budget, maybe even less that CCBetty. And, my Stanford classmates did the same thing with OddPost, boot-strapped.
And, the CCBetty team knows this — they’re tapping folks that have run up against Microsoft and Google and “won”.
I’m with @ztay – grow a pair, find the big kid on the playground and punch him right in the mouth. You’d be surprised how many VCs like those guys… Cardinal Ventures, Fundamental Capital and plenty of high profile investors too.
The CC feature in not revolutional. A project management system Wrike.com can do that since 2006. In addition Wrike has Gantt charts with drag-and-drop support and selective project sharing (you can share parts of your projects with various teams).
Another solution in search of a problem…dont see it.