Email Marketing Disruption

 MailChimp email marketing has become too expensive. 

Amazon's geeky SES service is 34 times cheaper and in the future will shape email marketing industry.

The promise is there. Play with Sendy and MuxMail.

Secure E-mail

ProtonMail, an easy to use secure email service with built-in end-to-end encryption and state of the art security features.

The New New Email

Real-time email and search

Google Wave: Re-inventing e-mail.

People behind Google Maps are doing it. Application is open source.

He proposed this thing called “hosted conversations” (this is what we call waves now). He listed them in a big series of benefits over existing systems. The thing that caught me was with these hosted conversations, you could do both email type conversations and instant messaging type conversations, in the same tool.

A core part of the product is the “liveness.” And you can see what people are doing all the time. Waves become active and unread and pop-up in your search panel all the time, and you need to learn when that’s useful for people and when it’s not, and how to present information to them in a way that’s useful and so they know what’s important and what to deal with