Cool things you can do with MailSpaces

1. Blog with it - Yup, why not - You can send in your entries by email, which save a lot of hassle.  You can send in Web pages, inline images, files, just about anything, frankly (and yes there is an RSS and Atom feed).  All of your entries link together, so there is no need to tag anything - It's all there

2. Share family photos - Of course, lots of other people do that, but how many of them tag them all automatically?

3. Make the mother of all RSS agregators - Take your RSS feeds, and then find out all of the stuff that's really going on.

4. Newsletters - The newsletters are the best bit, I think - Don't get live e-mail from all of your groups - Say you are doing the RSS aggregation thing - Do you really want all of those to come into your e-mail?  Probably not - Set up a newsletter to tell you what is new in the last  24 hours - This feature will be ultra-cool with the introduction of "auto-suggest" in the next release - at the moment, to make "Social" i.e. sticky tags, you need to either follow the suggestions in the Taskbox, convert a Virtual tag, or create one manually - Soon, we'll allow you to let the system create Social tags automatically.

5. Capture your existing group(s) and let MailSpaces do its worst - You'll see some groups come in already by RSS (like the Yahoo! BioDiesel group)- RSS is not great, as it truncates some of the messages, and also we don't formally thread feeds (yet), but it gives a great idea of what is going on - If you post the "New Tags" on the Home Page, you give newbies a taste of what is going on in the Space without having to post "Hello, I'm a newbie" type e-mail

6. Research and write a book: Use one of our private MailSpaces to forward all of your e-mail about the book, and any interesting research materials you come across on the Web - you can link in relevant RSS feeds - Once you start on the book, you can use the wiki back-end, and invite your editors to come online, and edit the book on the web.  And all of your research would be linked together.

7. Process your personal e-mail - Yup, you can now follow Nigel's less than useful tutorial at personal-e-mail-and-mailspaces