Boxbe
Boxbe is a free service that helps to reduce email overload. It prioritizes and screens spam in personal email. Boxbe users can select which email they want to receive, and which email goes to spam. It presents a challenge to senders that requires a human response, if the sender is sending for the first time.
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[edit] Service
Boxbe starts with knowledge of your contacts. It then builds upon it, extending priority to contacts of those you trust. Boxbe personalizes itself to work best for you, learning as it goes. Close integration within Gmail (including Google Apps), AOL, and Yahoo! Mail lets Boxbe stay up to date so it can intelligently screen your email.[1]
[edit] Security
Boxbe supports best practices in personal security with Yahoo!, AOL, Gmail and Google Apps, such as OAUTH. This increases and improves the capability to easily and securely exchange information between your email account and Boxbe for more reliable service and screening. This is all done without sharing your email account access password with Boxbe. [2]
[edit] History
Boxbe was founded in 2005 by Thede Loder and Corbett Barr. Venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson were both investors, with Dyson and Steve Jurvetson serving as board members.[3] Beyond challenge response, Boxbe initially used the Attention Bond Mechanism (the option of paying a fee to deliver the email) as a way to filter spam,[4] which they later abandoned. Boxbe company founder Thede Loder along with Marshall Van Alstyne and Rick Wash wrote the initial paper on Attention Bond Mechanism[5] which describes the Attention Bond as "allowing recipients to define a price that senders must risk to deliver the initial message.",.[6][7]
[edit] In Context
Boxbe promotes its service by sending courtesy notices to user's contacts, when and if given permission to do so by the user. Consequently many Internet users are angered[8], and have themselves been accused of using spam to promote their service[9].
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.boxbe.com/service
- ^ http://blog.boxbe.com/general/oauth-support-for-gmail
- ^ http://pulse2.com/2007/01/09/e-mail-marketing-company-boxbe-raises-15-million/
- ^ http://gigaom.com/2006/11/09/boxbe-get-a-cut-of-your-email-spam/
- ^ http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163104354
- ^ http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol6/iss1/art2/
- ^ http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/10/set-a-price-to-be-contacted-with-boxbe-email/
- ^ http://www.ventrino.com/blog/309/2009/06/boxbecom-spam-scam/
- ^ http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/22/boxbes-spam-a-fatal-mistake-for-them-and-me/
