Cc:Everybody: Email goes Public

in News by Gal Mor — June 15, 2010 at 5:31 pm | 1 comment

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The connection between Social networks and Email is a problem waiting to be solved. When Google tried to integrate Buzz into Gmail, it suffered a major backlash from users complaining about a breach of their privacy. Looking at my Gmail inbox these days would make one think that social mail has taken over. however there is very little we can do with our social emails besides read them, we can’t even respond to Facebook notices sent to us by our friends.

A slew of solutions are attempting to make our emails more social. Among them, TweetByMail connects your Twitter accounts with your inbox, and enable users to send and receive tweets with Outlook, Gmail, or any Smartphone. Digsby integrates mail with social networks and IM tools. However, these solutions are limited in their abilities, what if you want to send your mail to selected persons by email and at the same time, share or expose your mail to your followers? A new tool out of the works makes just this possible.

Cc:Everybody, is a public email service that aims to set free the content that would otherwise be lost forever in the depths of your inbox. Cc:Everybody is a free service that works alongside your real email, and gives you the option to share your conversations. When you sign into Cc:Everybody, you receive a public email address: user@cceverybody.com. From this stage, you can start sharing your emails right away by sending/forwarding them to your Cc:Everybody address where they will be visible in your public inbox http://cceverybody.com/{you}.

Anyone  can send emails to this address, and these are in turn shared on Social Networks instead of just showing up in your personal mail address. Notify everyone  about your new public email address. Once someone a sends a message  to this address, they receive a reply requesting approval to publicize their message, once granted their message is presented show in your public inbox and everyone can see it.

You can reply to messages published in your public inbox and then publish your reply to Twitter. In this way, your public email becomes a place for private and public conversations. Sounds tricky? It is, And we found the UI and the sharing process not intuitive. However, Looking again at the inbox, many emails are public anyway, so the transition from Private to Public is happening anyway.

Cc:Everybody was founded by Ran Geva and Israel Tsadok, the founders and developers behind Omgili.com. On site they explain they created Cc:Everybody “because we wanted to combine what we love about forums, blogs, email and mailing lists.”

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