GMail is just good enough
It is, but only in terms of what we think of email in today's usage. I think the next step will be where you can make the messages dynamic which would basically allow you to receive/deliver an interface to an app. Of course with all that power comes the issue of how to control it, but that would be an interesting problem to solve. Imagine instead of getting a notification email for an update on a Basecamp todo list, you would see the actual todo list and could manage right from your inbox.
Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
by icebraining on Saturday March 10, 2012 @12:45PM
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The only reason you can't do that already is because email clients prohibit it for security reasons, and Hotmail is already experimenting with emails that allow that within a sandbox.
Emails can send HTML and JS, there's nothing innovative about it. You only need to convince developers to add JavaScript sandboxes to their email clients.
for some reason, shades of two-way-rss hype just came flooding back from 2006.
I thought of 2009, when Google Wave was announced.
That's exactly what my future start-up will do! Is anyone interested in making it happen?
Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
by politician on Friday March 09, 2012 @11:01PM
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Perhaps, but as Bentley and Gulfstream discovered, there is a tidy profit to be made servicing the niche needs of high-profile individuals.
Undoubtedly, but tidy profit and frighteningly ambitious are two different things.
For the vast majority of the people on the planet, GMail is just good enough. Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are still doing well.
Perhaps email is perceived as a problem just because it gets tons of "face time" with us every day. I'd leave it alone and focus on one of the countless unsolved problems in the world.