You can expect some action tomorrow. Just got this in my inbox from Penny Sleuth. He's talking about BigString.
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Editor’s Note: Gunner is back with fascinating find. He just stumbled upon one of the most exciting over-the-counter companies that he’s ever seen. It is about to do to e-mail what Microsoft did with MS-DOS…
The E-mail Microsoft Doesn’t Want You to Have
By Greg Guenthner
December 6, 2007
You’ve just received a critical e-mail from your boss regarding your recent performance. Your dedication and work ethic have been called into question, and several company executives were copied on the note, as well.
Naturally, you’re furious and you need to vent your frustration. So in a fit of rage, you decide to forward the e-mail to some sympathetic co-workers, along with some choice language directed toward your less-than-sympathetic boss.
But you didn’t forward the message…
Instead, you accidentally clicked “reply all.” In a flash, your angry e-mail has landed itself in the inbox of every important person at your company. You can bang on your computer screen all you want, but that e-mail still sent. And there’s no way to get it back. That is, until now…
There’s a tiny $11 million company that’s making “e-mail regret” a thing of the past. Its patent-pending technology gives senders total control over their messages. Users can recall, modify or even destroy messages entirely — even after they are sent. And now the company has developed a new application for a popular Internet social network around its popular technology…
The idea for the first truly private e-mail service came about almost accidentally. A couple of years ago, the company was working on anti-spam products, when an executive sent an e-mail with an incorrect attachment. Fearing he would lose the client, he went to his tech support team for help. After it told him there was no way to get back or modify his e-mail, he knew he had stumbled onto something that needed to be fixed. A great idea was born…
Signing up for this technology with your Outlook account costs less than $30 a year. A personal account is free. There are no downloads, just a simple sign-up page. And when it comes to privacy, this revolutionary software is moving beyond e-mail, as well…
There are virtually endless applications — features that every professional can use to improve business. With this software, photographers can e-mail proofs that cannot be printed or saved without authorization. A user can also limit the number of times a client can view an e-mail item before it self-destructs.
The company is getting into other forms of electronic messaging, too. Just this month, it announced a partnership program for social networking and online dating sites to offer the technology for “self-destructing” video, picture and text messages.
Of course, these applications are used to protect user privacy. If you send a video message to friends, you probably don’t want it to be spread all over the Internet.
Facebook, an online social networking site that is incredibly popular among college students and other young people, has already picked up the technology. Facebook users can now send these exploding messages and pictures to their online friends and program them to self-destruct at a designated time. The software allows the e-mail and pictures to be nonforwardable, nonprintable and nonsavable. The message goes only to the intended recipient, no matter what. And it doesn’t matter what e-mail service provider is used — it all goes through this technology.
I can also think of another less social networking group located in Langley, Virginia that may also have a slight interest in this technology…
This tiny company has changed e-mail, as we know it. That’s the most important quality a small over-the-counter company can have. When Microsoft first came out with MS-DOS, it changed the way people used computers. It took the power from the hands of the few and gave it to us, allowing almost anyone to learn how to efficiently operate a personal computer. And it simultaneously helped create one of the most powerful technology companies ever.
The same could be true here. It is also a disrupter. It forces us to rethink e-mail completely. Most importantly, it is making e-mail private in a world where privacy is becoming harder and harder to find.
Until today, you and I had no control whatsoever over our e-mail. With this software, an e-mail is less like a message carved in marble and more like a phone call. You control your information, sensitive or not, and you decide what happens to it. It would be foolish to call this anything less than revolutionary.
The company is an infant in the business world. It’s one of the smallest of the small public companies, with a market cap of around $10 or $11 million, depending on the day of the week.
But with an aggressive PR campaign, I expect that you’ll be reading about the hottest new e-mail application in every major magazine in no time.
Best,
Gunner
P.S.: Unfortunately, I couldn’t give away the name of this infantile company to such a broad audience like the Sleuth’s. However, I’m not going to only tease you with it. There is still a way for me to give you the name of this sweet little company, along with my advice for how to make it work for you.
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