I think we're in Diaspora territory again, where I want to own the data and allow access to you via my own criteria.<p>I've been baulking at Firefox 4's "sync" today because the data is on their server with their key. A bit 1990's me thinks.<p>There's no way I'm trusting my email, or anyone else's, to another third party.<p>I imagine I manage this like most folk, I forward gmail to my server and procmail from there. Works great.
this should probably just get paired with an email parser, as in you setup a filter, and tell it what piece of data to look for, and that's the only data that's made available.<p>i dunno about others, but I wouldn't want some third party site to get the full email with my name/address for example.
Maybe I didn't understand something, but it seems to me that companies like Blippy would have to change something in their code to link with your server instead of Gmail. If it's the case, it would be hard to get everyone to adopt this system.<p>Or if it's not the case, could someone explain to me how linking the startup server with other companies would work? (Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with the technologies mentioned in the article.)
I have the oauth stuff already working in my app (different app, using php and ruby). I can help get this done (or a similar idea) very quickly. Get in touch with me if interested (email in profile).
Otherinbox is on this track. They can create calendar entries automatically from emails.<p>I stopped using them because I didn't like the opt-out style of filtering, but the technology is cool.