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Orgoo To Offer True WebMail To Existing Social Networks (techcrunch.com)
13 points by jasonlbaptiste on June 14, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


The real benefit of properly integrating email with social networks is that it provides a solution to spam. If only your friends (that you've opted in) can send you mail via this system, then your inbox there will be completely spam-free.

I was hoping for FB to offer that, but most people don't log in to FB often enough for it to be a reliable mail network. Email still wins. If Orgoo can shift that balance so that people check their email on the social networks, that's a killer app right there - possibly the best use, today, of the "social utility" aspect of a site like Facebook.


Am I the only one that's saddened by the potential for even more fragmentation of communication and info? I personally like having all of my information in one place, and that's my personal email account - not my social network. I don't need another email address.


Being able to integrate email with other webapps is a very good direction. We were hoping to do this with our webapp using gmail, but were amazed to find out there is no gmail api. Orgoo could fill a big need with this, unless/until gmail finally launches an api.




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