2026 1

An email interface to AI

Bring AI to where people already work: email Lots of companies are putting AI into their chat applications. Add Claude to a Slack channel, tell “@Claude” to do something, and it reads the conversation, uses tools, does what you tell it to, and replies in the same chat. Nice, for companies that use Slack a lot. (Many do. We don’t.) Straive and many of our clients use email more. There’s Google Chat, Teams, and others too, but email’s what most people access. (Apart from WhatsApp.) ...

2010 1

Google search via e-mail

I’ve updated Mixamail to access Google search results via e-mail. For those new here, Mixamail is an e-mail client for Twitter. It lets you read and update Twitter just using your e-mail (you’ll have to register once via Twitter, though). Now, you can send an e-mail to [email protected] with a subject of “Google” and a body containing your query. You’ll get a reply within a few seconds (~20 seconds on my BlackBerry) with the top 8 search results along with the snippets. ...

2006 1

How to get Yahoo Mail Beta

How to get Yahoo Mail Beta. Since I’m in the UK, I have it already. It’s excellent. I now actually check my Yahoo mail thrice a week, and feel happy while doing it.

2005 1

Gmail is fast

As Jeremy put it, GMail is really damn fast. Faster than desktop email. I prefer it to Outlook, and hence to my work e-mail ID.

2002 1

Receiving mail on a mobile

Several ways of receiving mail on a mobile phone.

2001 1

MailReader

If you have a POP account and want to read mails on it, MailReader.com offers a good web interface. Their mission statement is a revelation.