A Penguin in the Orchard

Kapor’s Outlook Killer

Mitch Kapor’s building an Outlook killer. This article on Slashdot really caught my attention. First off, I’m for anything that can provide a useful level of fucntionality in a new and forward-thinking way. Secondly, this was exactly the type of product we envisioned at Murl during its brief life as a corporate dot-com three years ago. Email, contacts, notes, appointments - all get filtered into a single ‘folder’ (though it’s not even that), indexed by context. The user could add additional tags for reference if they chose. It would do away with maintaining two-dozen mail folders by subject or sender. Everything would be searchable in a model where context is everything.

If I’d have read this two weeks ago, it probably would have thrown me into a funk, missing the energy of a small forward-thinking company. Reading it yesterday, I smiled in understanding and hope that they succeed where we at Murl couldn’t.