I like the idea of this product. Don't like the social aspect. I think that there are a lot of product that are waiting to be discovered and implemented by new startups that just involve yourself and the computer. Email is one of this things where to filter spam the social bit can be interesting, but probably the sorting of the email is just local to you and nobody else.
If I rate emails form Tommy are very important, and Tommy thinks email from Bob are very important, I still don't care to receive email from Bob as important emails and so on. The only useful bit of information that can be extracted from this stuff is that if I really didn't scored Foobar then the importance assigned to Foobar by my friend can be better to start without a clue at all, but anyway in the long run I've to compare Foobar with few of other guys for the system to really know if I care or not about it.
Btw it is a good start. If gmail were a pay-for product I bet that the email system of today would be much, much better. Instead a key component is uninteresting to startups since there are huge companies like Google pushing products that are good enough for most people, for free, and this in some way blocks evolution. It's better to pay 50$/year for a great email system than 0$ for a good one.
If I rate emails form Tommy are very important, and Tommy thinks email from Bob are very important, I still don't care to receive email from Bob as important emails and so on. The only useful bit of information that can be extracted from this stuff is that if I really didn't scored Foobar then the importance assigned to Foobar by my friend can be better to start without a clue at all, but anyway in the long run I've to compare Foobar with few of other guys for the system to really know if I care or not about it.
Btw it is a good start. If gmail were a pay-for product I bet that the email system of today would be much, much better. Instead a key component is uninteresting to startups since there are huge companies like Google pushing products that are good enough for most people, for free, and this in some way blocks evolution. It's better to pay 50$/year for a great email system than 0$ for a good one.