Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @03:54AM from the well-at-least-adding-some-stuff dept.

mrbarkeeper writes "IBM Research has thought about email and came up with a prototype of a better mail client. From their website: 'The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email. Not only has email become one of the most pervasive and successful collaborative tools available, it has also become a key component of IBM's Lotus Software offerings. In many ways, email can be seen as a victim of its own success - users increasingly suffer from overload and interruptions as well as use email in a manner for which it was not intended.' Several ideas worth discussing, some good, some irrelevant. But still worth a gander for anyone who spends most of their day in their inbox.

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Re:Sweet function by Alan+Partridge · 2003-12-09 04:05 · Score: 1, Troll

DEFINITELY

And threading has been available in Microsoft's Outlook Express for at least 3 years, and in Apple's Mail since Panther was released. If this is the best IBM can come up with, it's time for their stockholders to ask for the R&D spend back.

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What a job... by devphaeton · 2003-12-09 04:18 · Score: 0, Troll

'The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email.

May Buddha have mercy on their poor souls...

I mean, almost TEN years on email...

poor sops...

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