Hello world! Very first post on webinmail

Greetings from Webinmail!

Thought I will pen (or rather punch) a few words as the product is going to see the light of the day. I think this is the best time to tell you a little story about how it all started.

Sitting in my chair, sipping the hot tea, I was having a casual discussion with my colleagues. Like a river stream, the context of the discussion started flowing from one to another. And it came to the advantages and disadvantages of having a full internet access in the office. As I have also witnessed many such wars such as Vi against EMacs - Linux editors and Eclipse against NetBeans IDE users, this conversation was brewing well. So, we started discussing the case of person ‘Joe’ who sits in the IT park working on the Java project not having access to search, browse and information newsgroups.

*Lights* flickered in the mind on this very case while I kept wondering how to give this Joe what he wants and bring a smile on his face. This very moment when Webinmail took birth.

I spent a couple of hours in the night quickly writing the primary flow of the product and gave it to the ever enthusiastic team for chalking out a plan to turn this in the reality. As the product started taking shape, creative juices started flowing from all directions to make it a user friendly experience. The developer lead gave the vital idea of replacing A HREF links with mailto: links to easy mail-browsing. And thus, the product in its first shape is ready and we all @ rediff are very pleased to present it to you which is turned around in less than a month of ideation.

All I can say at this point is “World is full of good things and problems. And its these problems which pushes leaders to think on ways solve it.”

I am pretty sure this will reach the users - on the move with mobile, in the IT park with no web access to do the browsing and stay in touch with the cloud at a press of a button”

Just try sending a blank mail to browse@webinmail.com !!

Happy mail-browsing.

Sumit