OtherInBox is a interesting take on email accounts. When you sign up, you get a base email account like yourname.otherinbox.com. Whenever you sign up for something, you can create an individual and unique email address using your base and it will automatically deliver it to your account. For example, if you sign up for a flickr account, you can use flickr@yourname.otherinbox.com and when you open your otherinbox account, there will be a category called flickr. It’s a great way to control email coming into your account, and otherinbox will send an update to your regular email account or even forward the whole message (which kind of defeats the purpose). As a teacher, I could see this being useful – you could set up multiple accounts such as parents@yourname.otherinbox and students@yourname.otherinbox.com, or even set up individual email addresses for all you students so you can automatically see who emailed you.
Otherinbox is currently in beta, so it still has some issues, but I think it’s great and I have been transferring all those ‘non-essential’ emails (i.e. anything not from my friends or families) over to clear out my Live mail account.
Head on over to http://blog.otherinbox.com/signup.html to sign up for the beta (you might have to wait a bit).
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Thanks for writing about OtherInbox on your blog. The TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco earlier this month was a great forum to launch our new service to the public and we were really honored to be chosen to participate. We'd like to invite you to join our private beta that we announced at the conference, and we're happy to extend the invitation to your readers as well! Because we're in private beta, you need to have a special URL to sign up. This URL will work for 26 invitations (one fore you and 25 for your readers) if you want to post as a followup on your blog.
http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/mrbteachertech
Please let us know if you have any questions about the service. Thanks again!
~ The OtherInbox Team
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