Technology

E-mail overload

Is there any way to get a grip on the flood of e-mail?

01 November 2010

In May, respected US venture capitalist Fred Wilson, principal at Union Square Ventures, got the attention of the tech industry with a blog post entitled E-mail bankruptcy.

In it, he recalled a Sunday night spent trying to regain control of his inbox. It took him three hours to whittle down 1 200 unread non-spam e-mails to 800. Over the preceding few weeks, that number had grown from “a manageable hundred to an unmanageable thousand”.

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