Grab your smartphone, Boomerang Mobile is here! We’ve been working on it for months, and we’re thrilled to be able to bring message scheduling and email reminders to your phone. Boomerang now works on iPads, iPhones, anything Android, BlackBerries, and dozens of other web-enabled phones. The mobile version has all the Boomerang features that you’ve come to rely on in the Desktop version — Scheduled Sending,...
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This week, Google announced the launch of a new optional feature: read receipts. Apparently the feature was heavily requested on Google’s Product Ideas, and this time Google answered. Read receipts inform senders whether their messages have been read and allow recipients to acknowledge that they received something. The receipts are either automatically generated when a message is opened or manually approved, depending on the...
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If you are looking for ways to schedule text messages, there are a few dedicated web services out there like TextMeLater, OhDon’tForget and TextMemos. They will require you to register and set up an account with them, but are otherwise fine ways to schedule a text message. But if you are like me, a Boomerang user (well, you should be if you already aren’t), who loves to schedule everything inside Gmail and prefer to have...
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Update: March 15, 2011, 4:53 PM: This issue is now (mostly) resolved! Google has pushed an update to their OAuth signin flow. When you are presented your account selection screen, choose your Gmail account, and everything will work. If you use both Gmail and Google Apps Mail in the same browser at the same time, you may be experiencing issues signing into Boomerang or The Email Game. You are impacted if you are taken to an account...
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A few hours ago, we started getting emails and tweets from users about Boomerang disappearing. As it turns out, Google started rolling out their new menu bar to a subset of users and by now, it may have rolled out to everyone. If you haven’t got one, it looks like this. It’s pretty, isn’t it? We set to work making Boomerang work perfectly with Google’s new & shiny menu bar. And we have pushed out the latest...
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Image via Wikipedia My fraternity mailing list is home to a great group of people, including some great entrepreneurs and some great investors. But when you get 400 opinionated MIT grads on a single mailing list, and the topic shifts to anything controversial, the discussion might explode. We’ve had well over 125 emails come through in the last three days after someone brought up the health care bill, and several folks have emailed to...
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