by Brian Solis

TWPLY is new service that tracks personal @replies and sends them to your designated email inbox. Seems simple enough and may be ideal for those high volume personal and corporate brands that need to actively monitor inbound tweets without having to stay connected directly to Twitter, Twitter Search, or a third-party service.

I’m testing the service now and will report back with my experience.

NOTE: When you log in, TWPLY will post a tweet to your twitter timeline that reads, “Just started using http://twply.com/ to get my @replies via email. Neat stuff!” Many consider this to be Twitter Spam and unfortunately it’s turning people off to the service.

UPDATE: TWPLY is officially hated by the Twitter community and in less than 24 hours, was already sold on SitePoint. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.

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by Michelle Lentz

Gmail, everyone’s favorite web-based email solution, may finally have some competition. GMX Mail recently debuted their web-based mail application in the US and have had over 100,000 accounts created in the last few weeks.

GMX Mail is a subset of United Internet, which also includes 1&1 and Fasthosts. United Internet’s high speed data centers manage more than 10 million domains. The Group’s data centers set extremely high standards worldwide with 40,000 hosted servers and a monthly transfer volume of 4,000 terrabytes as well as over 5 billion e-mails. GMX maintains more than 10 million active e-mail accounts.

GMX Mail doesn’t just want to provide you with another web-based account. It wants to be your complete email application, replacing the inbox on your local machine. For starters, it gives you that “Outlook” appearance, with traditional folders on the left, with email listings and a preview pane to the right.

GMX offers 5 GB of email storage and seven layers of anti-spam security. You can choose your user id/email address from gmx.com/.us/.fr and many others.  In addition, you can have one default account and then create subaccounts from within your email box. For instance, my default account is michellel@gmx.com, but I can also use michellelentz@gmx.com and writetechnology@gmx.com. They all link to the same default account. You can have up to 10 email aliases.

A cool feature is the mail collector. As part of wanting to replace your desktop application, GMX can manage all of your email accounts, whether Gmail or Hotmail, POP or IMAP. You enter your information and with only 2 clicks, you can send and receive from your other accounts as well as your GMX account. The GMX Inbox includes all of your typical mail functions, including folders, filters, and more. My favorite feature? I love that you can work on several email messages at once, in a tabbed format.

GMX Mail is free, of course, and worth checking out. It’s like you’re getting a new organized Inbox, but it happens to come with a new email address as a bonus.

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