Orgoo wants to add real email to social networking sites

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Orgoo wants to add real email to social networking sites

by Brad Linder Jun 14th 2008

Tired of getting email notifications letting you know that someone wants to be your friend, poke, or wink at you? Webmail provider Orgoo wants to bridge the gap between email and social networking. That means you'd be able to receive all of your email notifications without leaving the social networking site. TechCrunch reports that Orgoo hopes to convince social networks like MySpace and Facebook to integrate the Orgoo email interface, which will also encourage users to spend more time on the web page.

While most social networking sites have some sort of private messaging feature, they tend to lack the features you'd find in a full fledged email service like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail. Orgoo supports POP and IMAP, which means you wouldn't necessarily be stuck with an @orgoo.com or @myspace.com email address. You could link any POP or IMAP-enabled account to the service.

Last year Yahoo! made some waves by claiming that email itself could be the basis for the next generation social networking. The implication is that Yahoo! may add social features to its email and IM services to make Yahoo! Mail a bit more Facebook-like. Orgoo's solution seems to achieve the same goal by taking the exact opposite approach.

Tags: email, orgoo, social-networking

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

RazorD said 5:40PM on 6-14-2008

Does anyone have an Orgoo invite? :( I've been trying to get in for weeks!

If so, could you send the invite to raz [at] razord [dot] net? Thanks!

Charles said 7:01PM on 6-14-2008

If you need an invite to Orgoo (I have 11 left after I invite the person above), just e-mail me at cw1925 at gmail dot com.

jennanino said 2:11PM on 6-19-2008

wat up

Jaison Martinez said 5:30PM on 6-30-2008

I need help with my myspace e-mail

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