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Rising Tide: Email startups are hot
- mdemare 19y agoGood! It's about time! Gmail has lost its glamour a long time ago (in internet years). I'd like an integrated address book, calendar, rss reader, smarter views (think iTunes), account protection, guaranteed backups + real customer service, search by date, spam filters that can distinguish between my friends are viagra ads, etc, etc. And I'd pay for it! Actually, I prefer to pay, because paying turns me into a customer instead of a user.
- queensnake 19y agoAnd it would be one less source of information that Google has on you.
- nickb 19y agoGmail will get a facelift in Nov... along with a ton of other social features.
- brezina 19y agoGoogle is the new Microsoft. They won't really do anything revolutionary anymore. They have become too conservative.
- tx 19y agoThe potential problem with web-based email startups is that good AJAX email experience requires fast response times. Google can afford multiple data centers with thousands of servers powering gMail making sure UI response is nearly instantaneous. A little company with $3-4 million in the bank will most likely feel sluggish. A good example is Plaxo. I like them a lot, always have been. But I simply cannot use it because their UI makes me feel I'm on a dialup.