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Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:07:03 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:45:52 +0000

Sarah,

As new ideas and innovations sprout up across the Internet, this problem is only going to get worse. One aspect of this social media overload is the amount of bacn it generates. My Gmail used to be 90% full of randomg Facebook and Twitter notifications. Our new email service, OtherInbox, is aimed towards helping reduce and organize this clutter.

Each user gets their own domain name user.otherinbox.com) and new folders are automatically generated when new addresses are given out ( facebook at user.otherinbox.com, linkedin@user.otherinbox.com, etc.) Using this, you can cut down on your email overload (freeing up your personal and work accounts) as well as manage your social networking connections.

We are in private beta, but I’d like to invite you and your readers to try us out at this URL:

http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/digitalnatives

I look forward to reading any comments and ideas you may have about OtherInbox. Thanks!

~The OtherInbox Team

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:02:47 +0000

Honestly, I reached a point where I had to limit myself to an appointed time for social networking. I found my productivity was dropping too quickly as each tweet was sent. Talk about overload. So friendfeed seems like a good way to increase your social networking coverage.

By: sy

sy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:26:46 +0000

Former Berkman Geek-in-Residence Luis Villa touches on this some of these themes today in his blog: http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/11/06/refocusing/