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One place to access everything digital takes off

One place to access everything digital takes off its training wheels – Unified Inbox

By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - 29 May 2012 ) When you simply state the idea of having one place where all forms of contact – email, Facebook, Twitter, text and others – end up in one place for reading and responding to, it sounds an eminently sensible thing to do.

But there’s a pretty good reason nobody’s managed to pull this off, and all the more reason that NZ-originated, globally-created Unified Inbox is ever so slowly bringing its product to market.

“It’s an incredibly hard thing to do,” says UiB founder and CEO Toby Ruckert, whose international team first set out four years ago to create such a beast.

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