Wednesday, March 30, 2005

The PrintFu Gmail Challenge

When was the last time you read an email you received 6 years ago? Chances are you haven't. Why is that? Because we loose CD's, Floppies, Zips, Hard Drives etc. So whats the solution?

A product that can log in to various email systems . ie Yahoo, GMail, HotMail.. download messages and using the PFML xml2pdf web service, generate a PDF.

How cool would it be to have a PrintFu book of your emails from 2004? Gmail would be a great start. You could select a specific "filter" to print - and boom you have a nicely printed PrintFu Book. Whomever builds it first wins. Considering the amount of email out there, and the amount of users that would use this "Printed Email". Could generate some serious referral coin.

Maybe a good starting point would be the GMail API for Java