March 2011-SXSW & Google and OtherInbox show up wearing the same dress!

March 31 2011, 7:26pm

Yeah, we pretty much showed March 2011 who’s boss! That’s what happens when the biggest party in interactive technology is held in our hometown of Austin, Texas. SXSW.

From 8 floors above we watched as the best and brightest in tech and entertainment did their thing. Last week we talked about all the stuff we were involved in — Startup Crawl, IgniteSXSW and much more — also, we launched Organizer across the pond! Peeps in the UK can now have their inboxes sorted out too! Lots of amazing things went down in March but we have yet to address one very important thing that happened last month. Smart Labels. Right before SX, Google quietly announced the implementation of Smart Labels in Google Labs. Smart labels is their new feature that uses Priority Inbox technology to automatically organize incoming email by certain categories. Yeah, Google and OtherInbox showed up at the ball wearing the same dress. Truth be told, we are totally flattered! So, rather than remind everyone that our own Organizer has a much more robust set of preset categories (11 vs Gmail’s 3) OR that we also have the amazing Unsubscribe Folder that removes you from email lists in one move OR even how you can customize your category folders OR even EVEN the fact that we send you a very handy Daily Digest everyday telling you what these filed emails are,  I thought I would just show some of the responses we found about the new Gmail feature! Right away we started seeing peeps tweetin bout it-  

@jamesju right away saw the correlation.

@techmate was gracious enough to give some cred to our categorizing efforts! (It’s a lot of work making Organizer smarter and smarter!)   Tara at email giant Constant Contact wrote this great post about her experience with both Organizer and Smart Labels. She comments – “Organizer works how I think the Gmail Labs folks hoped the Smart Labels would.” +1, Tara! What do you think? Who wears it better? Organizer or Smart Labels? Try em both out… give us the scoop! Facebook, Twitter, or help@otherinbox.com. Shoot us a message, we’ll find it in the cloud!