Category: email

Startup of the Month: Followletter – A better Alternative To Email Newsletters and RSS

For our third ever installment of Startup of the Month, we’ve decided after much deliberation on FollowLetter. Essentially, FollowLetter allows for email newsletters without flooding your inbox. As a blogger, I personally subscribe to dozens of newsletters on marketing, technology, and business, and it often crowds out the more important and pressing emails in my inbox. The reason we debated naming them startup of...

How To Get the New Gmail Inbox

Do you want the new Gmail inbox, which Google unveiled in May 2013? Follow these 5 simple steps to get the new gmail inbox, and pay with your Gmail account/Google Wallet (How insanely Cool is that?). Open your regular gmail inbox at Gmail.com Click on the gear on the right side of your inbox. Click “Configure inbox”. Check the “updates” and “forums” box. Click...

Google Responds To Outlook With New Gmail Layout, Features

Google’s Gmail was a hit from the moment it appeared as a beta product in 2004, with invites for the service originally selling for literal hundreds of dollars, but as of late, they’ve been losing ground to competitors including Microsoft’s Outlook.com, so they’ve responded with some awesome new features, and a new layout. New Gmail Features: Send money via email. Paypal has officially been...

Sixty Day no-email Challenge: Update 1

Well, I’ve somehow officially made it 48 hours without checking my email. Most of that time was without my phone, but that’s beside the point. Today I’d just like to say it’s nice to be disconnected and thus further connected to nature. Do we really need email? That is the question at the root of this challenge, and that is what I’m really trying to...

Take The 60 Day No-Email Challenge with Me

Hey folks. Today I’m embarking on a challenge where I will no use email for nearly 60 days (somewhere around 53). This means I won’t be answering emails here too (sorry), but I’m really curious to see how connected my life really is. For the next 60 days I’m cutting myself off from email, and a few other web services (I’ll still be blogging...