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Showing posts with label email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label email. Show all posts
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
This 24-Year-Old Founder Finally Came Up With An Idiot-Proof Way To Make Email Groups
Email has been around for decades, yet there still isn't a simple system for sending messages to the same group of people repeatedly.
Obviously, there's the "CC" option in email, but you still have to type in multiple addresses. You could set up a group in your preferred email client, but that means wading into the murky "settings" sections.
Mike Dirolf, the 24-year-old founder of Fiesta.cc, may have come up with a solution to this problem.
Fiesta.cc allows people to create group email lists right from the carbon copy field without ever having to visit another web page.
It's so easy it's stupid. You can set up a group straight from your email with ease. Put everyone you want on your group list in the "To:" line, and make the "Cc" line your group name, as in "family@fiesta.cc." From there on in, when you or someone in your family wants to email everyone, just send it to "family@fiesta.cc." Click here to see how it works »
Just last Thursday, Dirolf made Fiesta.cc a public site. Already Dirolf has 2,000 users, including a group of 300 pastors who are happily using it, he says.
Group products, such as GroupMe and Fast Society, were all the rage at SXSW this year, and Dirolf could easily be a dark horse in race.
Dirolf is building Fiesta.cc at DogPatch Labs, a New York startup space. He has no funding, and is working strictly from his savings account.
The idea for Fiesta.cc came from Dirolf's first, failed attempt, which was also named Fiesta.
"That idea was more like Evite, but for everyday meetings," Dirolf tells us. "But I realized if people are planning one-time meetings, they're not going to bother sending more than one group email. When I would plan something with friends, like a trip to the movies, I wasn't using my own product. And if the founder doesn't want to use it, no one else will either."
Suffice to say, Dirolf is using Fiesta.cc these days. And we think there's a good chance he won't be the only one.
Fiesta.cc's homepage shows how easy its process is
But you don't even need to use the website. Enter everyone you want to include in your group email in the 'To" field. Then select a group name @fiesta.cc in the "Cc" field.
Fiesta.cc ties group names to email address, so any user can select any group name, even one that is already being used by another group (think of naming people in a phone book versus having to pick a unique Twitter handle).
View more at Business Insider
See Also:
- March Madness On Demand Is Back With The Craziest, Most Elaborate "Boss Button" Ever
- The Odd Artwork from Google Creative Lab's Creative Director Ji Lee
- Take Our Photo Tour Of Groupon, Where They're Quickly Becoming Billionaires
This 24-Year-Old Founder Finally Came Up With An Idiot-Proof Way To Make Email Groups
An Idiot-Proof Way To Make Email Groups: Fiesta.cc
Email has been around for decades, yet there still isn't a simple system for sending messages to the same group of people repeatedly.
Obviously, there's the "CC" option in email, but you still have to type in multiple addresses. You could set up a group in your preferred email client, but that means wadding into the murky "settings" sections.
Mike Dirolf, the 24-year-old founder of Fiesta.cc, may have come up with a solution to this problem.
Fiesta.cc allows people to create group email lists right from the carbon copy field without ever having to visit another web page.
It's so easy it's stupid. You can set up a group straight from your email with ease. Put everyone you want on your group list in the "To:" line, and make the "Cc" line your group name, as in "family@fiesta.cc." From there on in, when you or someone in your family wants to email everyone, just send it to "family@fiesta.cc." Click here to see how it works »
Just last Thursday, Dirolf made Fiesta.cc a public site. Already Dirolf has 2,000 users, including a group of 300 pastors who are happily using it, he says.
Group products, such as GroupMe and Fast Society, were all the rage at SXSW this year, and Dirolf could easily be a dark horse in race.
Dirolf is building Fiesta.cc at DogPatch Labs, a New York startup space. He has no funding, and is working strictly from his savings account.
The idea for Fiesta.cc came from Dirolf's first, failed attempt, which was also named Fiesta.
"That idea was more like Evite, but for everyday meetings," Dirolf tells us. "But I realized if people are planning one-time meetings, they're not going to bother sending more than one group email. When I would plan something with friends, like a trip to the movies, I wasn't using my own product. And if the founder doesn't want to use it, no one else will either."
Suffice to say, Dirolf is using Fiesta.cc these days. And we think there's a good chance he won't be the only one.
Fiesta.cc's homepage shows how easy its process is
But you don't even need to use the website. Enter everyone you want to include in your group email in the 'To" field. Then select a group name @fiesta.cc in the "Cc" field.
Fiesta.cc ties group names to email address, so any user can select any group name, even one that is already being used by another group (think of naming people in a phone book versus having to pick a unique Twitter handle).
View more at Business Insider
See Also:
- March Madness On Demand Is Back With The Craziest, Most Elaborate "Boss Button" Ever
- The Odd Artwork from Google Creative Lab's Creative Director Ji Lee
- Take Our Photo Tour Of Groupon, Where They're Quickly Becoming Billionaires
An Idiot-Proof Way To Make Email Groups: Fiesta.cc
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
‘Follow by Email Gadget’ Added to Google Blogging Platform ‘Blogger’
Google Blogger today introduced a "Follow by Email" gadget that provides blog authors a simple way for their readers to subscribe to the latest hot-off-the-press updates, which're delivered directly to the reader's inbox. When new blog content is published, all subscribed readers will receive a daily email notification of the new published posts, which includes a copy of the new content as well as links back to the actual posts.
‘Follow by Email Gadget’ Added to Google Blogging Platform ‘Blogger’
Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DTWB/~3/P2n_ejdMKVM/
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
What Does Your Email Address Say About You?
It can't be denied that people will judge you based on the email service you choose--whether it be Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or AOL. Hunch, a web app that provides specialized recommendations, surveyed a group of their users to see which characteristics defined users of different webmail providers.
Continue reading on the Huffington Post >>
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What Does Your Email Address Say About You?
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Would an Email Tax Fix the UK Economy?
British union boss Bob Crow says that putting a tax on every email that gets sent would give a significant boost to the country’s troubled economy. But would anyone really pay a tax on messages — and would it even help if you did?
Would an Email Tax Fix the UK Economy?
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2011/03/01/would-an-email-tax-fix-the-uk-economy/
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
How To Get Steve Jobs To Respond To Your Email (AAPL)
One of the great thrills in life for any Apple fan is to open their inbox, and see Steve Jobs has replied to an email.
But how does it work? How can you get Jobs to write you back? Doesn't he get thousands of emails everyday?
To figure it out, we're taking a look back at the messages he's sent. From there we're parsing the messages, looked for themes to emerge.
We think we've come up with an idea about what works. Granted, it's all a crapshoot, but this could help put the odds on your side.
Click here to see how to get Steve Jobs to respond to your email →Join the conversation about this story »
See Also:
- Now Steve Jobs Is Having An Email Pissing Match with A College Journalism Student
- Steve Jobs Email: "Not A Chance" Google Is Leapfrogging Us
- New Email From Steve Jobs: 'Life Is Fragile'
How To Get Steve Jobs To Respond To Your Email (AAPL)
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