Suggested by Prof. Joe Hellerstein
Description:
A hosted email app that is much better than Gmail. This would be an end-user app that sucks down your POP/IMAP from elsewhere, parses out the headers into the database, and also ferret-indexes the full text. On top of the headers, it should build a social network graph on your email so you can see who emails whom, who receives the same mail, etc. Even better, you should be able to swap that graph with friends (e.g. via Facebook?) to construct bigger graphs. Even better, it could use a natural language toolkit to parse out names, dates, and other recognizable entities from emails, to construct a searchable database of "facts" in your email.
Xobni does something similar but they're only an Outlook plugin.
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Competition:
- www.xobni.com
Comments (3)
Wesley Hinkle said
at 5:05 pm on Oct 8, 2008
bravo! gmail as an imap client would be enough to make me happy... the rest is icing!
Arthur Klepchukov said
at 11:03 am on Oct 10, 2008
I would definitely be willing to alpha and beta test this.
Arthur Klepchukov said
at 10:06 pm on Oct 16, 2008
From Professor Hellerstein:
All I'd say, quickly, is that the email app shouldn't necessarily ape Xobni. There's many things that you could do with this beyond what Xobni does. Get creative!
From Eli Chait, Alsop Louie:
Hopefully someone will do SeeMail….
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