If you look hard enough (many of them are underground), you can find apps which enhance Reddit, Hacker News, Facebook, and many more.

Here are three extraordinary browser apps making GMail better.

Graph Your Inbox

This app enables a radical new view of the emails you’ve archived. Perform typical GMail search queries such as “from:(email)” or “label:Sales” and instantly have those messages charted by volume and time.

The charts are really interesting to look over. I’ve found it’s a great way to track my affiliate sales, PayPal and social activities.

EmailOracle

Just introduced to the world today, EmailOracle is bringing back an old email marketing concept and giving it to the public. Yes, now you can track when people open your sent emails!

By embedding an invisible image and monitoring it from EmailOracle’s server, they are able to deliver this useful information to you seamlessly. EmailOracle has another cool feature for reminding you to follow up if a response is not received in a timely manner.

Rapportive

This excellent service displays additional information about the people who email you.  Rapportive searches the web for connections to email addresses on public networks and is able to find photos, formal titles, and links to social network profiles.

As a social media power networker, I am often delighted to find additional connections to people I may otherwise never have had.

I have noted almost all of the key points from his speech below.

- Bio Tech – May be big, you can make money in this space.

- It’s hard to start a software company. You are creating value when you write software. Good place to be.

- ‘Efficient Markets’ emerging as information flows around. (AirBNB)

- Side note: YC is applying mass production techniques to venture funding.

- Measurement – Google Ads are popular because returns can be measured. Inventing a new way to measure more stuff is a good idea.

- Thoughts on the U.S.: As long as you have peace and people can make money and be entrepreneurs – then society will be prosperous. If bandits, government, invaders steal the money from people who make it then society could collapse.

- Let the good times roll in Silicon Valley. California is still rich. you can start a co. anywhere but it helps to be here.

- Higher resolution world, stuff gets done. Networks of little organizations that make things happen are more efficient. As products have more and more of a technical component, it becomes less of a good idea to become a big company.

- Economic inequality

- Moore’s Law working, but differently. Moving towards multi-core. There is a gap to be spanned in helping to build software on advanced systems.

- Want to deliver something? Think about what screen they are sitting in front of. (TV, iPad, Phone)

- Server based apps will continue to have a long run. Will become more complicated. Software and data will by default live on servers.

- Good customer service will be more important as it’s easier for customers to switch. They can also research and find out if you have good service. Customers now involved in designing your product. You learn alot from talking to customers.

- Apparently frivolous stuff often turns out very useful. (Facebook, Math, Twitter) – Bummed he missed out on his Twitter name. (Update: Found a good Twitter name @PaulG)

- Popular programming languages will emerge. Adopt the hottest languages. You should write server based apps in lots of languages. Don’t look down on “scripting languages” which are more abstract/powerful.

- Open source is big.

- Linux will never be a factor on desktop. (Paul cowers) The world has done design for you. Linux will be on servers for sure. Buy Apple stock. Hackers are a leading indicator of what people will be using in the future. (Audience was 40% – 50% Mac users)

- Everybody wants iPhones. Good for browsing the web. Problem for hackers because Apple are jerks. Android can’t compete with iPhone.
Apple cares about the iPhone the way Google cares about search.

- Design is something to bet on. China has made manufacturing a commodity. Design is software winning over hardware.

- Real-time is not bogus in the way “Web 2.0″ was. Something definite going on, it’s the computing equivalent from the change in going from dial-up to cable internet. Protocols may go real-time.

- Google Wave is going to be important. (Whoops)

- Venture funding is not going to go away because VCs need you. They may not have the upper hand they’ve had in the past. Will give people money on better terms.

- Founders will more and more have the upper hand. Investors are learning it does not work to fire founders. Really matters who the founders are. Technical founders more and more important.

- Programmers can learn to do business. It’s a lot easier for hackers to learn business than business men to hack.

I’ve been using Backupify for awhile to back up ALL my content on Facebook, GMail, Twitter, and WordPress blogs. There are many more social and Google services available, but each one is optional.

Why use Backupify? What’s it do?

If you think you might accidentally delete a photo or email, encounter a fail whale or somehow get hacked – Backupfiy has you covered.

It can even create a nice PDF file containing all your Tweets dating over a year back. Links are clickable as well.

You’re not limited to just text backups though; Backupify stores your Facebook or Picasa photos and Google Docs files.

History of each backup is logged and you can setup a monthly archive delivery.

On to the invites…

I only have 5 invites to Backupify Premium (10gb storage, multiple accounts per service, monthly archive – $39.95 value)

I need all 5 invitees to be 100% sure they will sign up immediately or the upgrade will not go into effect.

If you are very interested in a free Backupify premium account, please leave a short comment below. Make sure to use your correct email address when posting the comment. Thank you!

This is the coolest, useful app I have ever seen. Yes, Epic Win will soon be found all over your Facebook wall and Twitter stream and you will probably enjoy it.

To sum it up quickly, Epic Win is a social “To-Do” list with virtual rewards. Brilliant!

Developed by Rexbox Productions, Epic Win takes elements from popular RPG games such as quests, loot, stats and experience. I don’t even have the app yet and I’m already itching to get rid of the pile of laundry in my bedroom or finally launch my new project.

Users will create their own real world To-Do list within the app. As items are checked off, a virtual character earns rewards and experience and is presented with the opportunity to announce accomplished tasks to friends on social sites.

Epic Win Coming Soon Trailer

I can tell that Rexbox Productions were paying attention to Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell during his gaming talk at DICE 2010.

Designing Outside the Box

The future of gaming is social, rewards, real life! This Epic Win app is going to be a major winner. What do you think?

Website management is starting to get a bit overwhelming for beginners. There are many different CMS options available and an huge array of plugins for common features and functions.

WebMatrix runs from your Windows desktop. The software allows a user to manage, edit and publish HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other site files. A new “Razor” syntax supposedly makes ASP.NET coding simple.

Apps and open source software like WordPress can be installed and managed using WebMatrix.

WebMatrix seems like it will be a good option for new web developers to learn the ropes and save a lot of time.

We’ve received positive feedback and lots of suggestions, many of which we will implement soon.

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