Comments on: Stealth-mode app turns InBox 2.0 into Life 2.0

By: Sam Michel

Sam Michel — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:54:57 +0000

Hi Mike...interesting developments, but it's really adding a Web 2.0 twist to technologies that have been around for sometime now. There was an Outlook tool that came out of MS labs a couple of years back which did something similar, although seemed very unstable when I was testing it out. There's also a firm called Clear Context that has an Outlook plugin, which prioritises email from contacts based on your previous behaviour towards them. I'm just testing it out now, but first impressions (3 weeks in) are very favourable.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:22:59 +0000

Mike, this is completely unrelated, so I apologise for being a spanner up-front (I didn’t want to fill out a company profile application just to leave this note), but have you thought about a TCUK forum?

I really think you’d build a great community, because I don’t think there’s one definitive place for UK startup entrepreneurs & app focused developers to go to, and I can really see a need for it. The main TC forum feels a little swamped. You, however, have THE brand, but you don’t suffer from the trolling that the main TC site does, so I know it’s a combo that could work well. I could even suggest a good topic structure for the sub-forums. You could tie in all the upcoming.org, OCC, facebook, and BarCamp meetups in one foul swoop, too!

Just a suggestion!

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By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:45:59 +0000

This is a really interesting idea, ok so the first few applications that make use of it aren’t the most useful, but understanding the history and context of messages over time is something that could help us deal with future email we receive.

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:13:57 +0000

Check out this interview of Ankur of Techlightenment talking about social analytics
http://uk.intruders.tv/Ankur-Shah-of-Techlightenment-on-the-Facebook-platform_a129.html

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:44:27 +0000

Maybe it is just me but tag clouds don’t work. They seem useful but quickly degenerate into an overload of info. And a pie chart of my relationship with my friends based on our emails seems useless at best.

Nice technology but it needs a user experience kick in the pants.

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:51:12 +0000

Nice review. I went and downloaded their facebook app straight away, very very smooth. AND they built the nestoria app? one of my favourite facebook apps (along with Plazes and Jaiku). This stuff is going to become important because we are all caught up in email, and what’s in our email, and we need some way to gather the structured and unstructured data and relationships and put them into a “useful” perspective.

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:19:07 +0000

There may be some correlation between what they're trying to do, and what Xobni is doing. Either way, that answers the question above about how it's useful.

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By: dave

dave — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:47:07 +0000

Isn’t a cloud tag for your life an interesting representation of who you are and what you care about? I had my delicious cloud tags on my page for a long time to help demonstrate what I care about. That was like making a cloud tag out of my junk drawer and this seems to dig much deeper IMHO.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:14:29 +0000

Well, this certainly proves that you can make graphs to illustrate anything. Corollary: just because data is in a graph does not make it useful.

It’s a cool idea but I think that most people would use it once, think ‘that’s nice’, then never use it again. I don’t see how you could make money out of it.

By: Dan Field

Dan Field — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:58:08 +0000

All looks very interesting… but why do we need it?

Why would I want a tag cloud of my life? Is it technology for technologies sake, or do they have some good productive ideas to come off the back of this?

By: Who needs InBox 2.0 when you can get Life 2.0?

Who needs InBox 2.0 when you can get Life 2.0? — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:53:01 +0000

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