Angry Robot

zoe, newsmonster

Geekin’: Poached from this comment and deserving of further attention are zoe, an attempt to make the Google of email; and newsmonster, apparently a mozilla-integrated aggregator with reputation-economy features. I haven’t gotten the latter working, which is too bad, but the former is equal parts confusion and oh-my-fucking-lord-that’s-cool future-tech impressiveness. There’s no documentation, which is itself kind of cool, but definitely adds to the confusion for someone like me. I’m not sure – I’m confused – but I think it makes almost everything in emails a hyperlink, it archives, you seem to be able to post to a weblog through mail.app, you can effectively thread email conversations, oh man… Unfortunately both apps are web interfaces, but fortunately both are cross-platform. Apparently zoe can integrate with mail.app and even NetNewsWire, but I haven’t really figured it out…