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FeedMyInbox is a newly incubated service that helps you to keep track of your favourite websites through emails. The service sounds much like a RSS Feed that keeps on providing you with the real updates of all the sites, you have subscribed for.
The one page site is self explanatory and is dead simple to attract users. Just enter your your email ID and the URL of your desired website and FeedMyInbox will start sending feeds right in your inbox. People who don’t like to subscribe by visiting every single site and feels that to be a RSS Feed member is a hectic process will certainly find it useful.
Overall, its a simple site with a dedicated concept of streaming feeds. However, question arises as why would one like to cluttered his/her inbox with so many annoying feeds. It would be more hectic and awful to clean and keep track of all feeds. Constant updates could be turned in to a blemish burden. Furthermore, people can use it with a bad intention of spamming others inboxes. Although, it gives you a verification link on subscribing to any site but it can even dump your inbox with unwanted links.
Users can avoid their inbox from being a can of feeds by making an entirely dedicated Email ID for FeedMyInbox or by making their subscription limited to specific websites only. The service would be quiet useful for the iPhone and Mobile users as they can easily access their email inboxes and therefore can get updates from their favourite sites when they are on move.
Hello and thanks for mentioning Feed My Inbox on your blog! We appreciate the nice words. I also wanted to clear up a couple things brought up in your post.
1. I totally understand your point about cluttering your inbox with all your feeds. Firstly, you and I are in the 3% minority that actually uses a feed reader. Some people simply don’t want to learn any new software, and are comfortable with email because it is all they know.
Secondly, we don’t really intend for you to track 50 feeds with it, although you can. I simply track 5 very important ones using the service instead of my reader and it’s great.
2. I understand your concern with spam even though we use confirmation links. All I can say is that we have hidden ways of dealing with any bots or spammers on the site, and eliminating those signups. We monitor signups on numerous fronts to keep anyone from taking advantage of it. But we will never use CAPTCHAs.
If you ever get an unauthorized email from Feed My Inbox please send it our way, but I can practically guarantee you will not.
Thanks again for the article!