CakeMail 2. Email 2.0: We Need More - Techvibes Blog. With everyone distracted by the various shiny tech objects out there (Twitter, Facebook, and so on), we've been neglecting our loyal -- if a little rusty -- friend: simple email.
Email, as we know it today, was developed in the early 1980s, a derivative of code from ARPANET made ten years prior. It went through a handful of iterations and today, most of the Internet relies on a solid little performer called sendmail. Sendmail is, surprisingly, quite a simple and small program. It sits in millions of Unix servers around the world to ferry email messages to and fro. Xero - Case Studies - Our Customers. ClearContext, helping with your email overload.
As we assert in a recent post about email startups, there’s a problem for people who use email a lot: Too many messages flowing into a single inbox will inevitably overwhelm even the most organized user.
ClearContext, like Xobni (our coverage), wants to help business people handle inbox-overload in Microsoft Outlook, by offering a product that sits on top of Outlook. However, it works a bit differently than Xobni, and with a different end user in mind.