I’ve been following Soonr for years. It was way back in June 2006 when they launched their Apple client that I started getting interested because, before then, Soonr was PC-only.
I’m off to meet Martin Frid-Nielsen, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Product Officer. I’m hoping to find out more about Soonr, where it’s going, how Martin views the industry in the US (and beyond) and how people are using Soonr. The product use stories coming out of the company are just phenomenal. Here’s an example case study from one of their users I came across a while ago:
Andrew K. from San Francisco was trying to catch a standby flight for business. When he went to retrieve an email with the flight info, the email had been blocked by his employer’s anti-spam software. He knew the login information was on his home computer, but he needed to find it quickly. Then, he remembered that SoonR can use the power of desktop search to find any file. So he quickly logged onto SoonR, searched his computer, and instantly found the log-in information. He was able to check in online and made the flight!
If you’ve any questions for Martin, whack’em to me by email and I’ll try and put them to him.
And if you haven’t already, get yourself a free copy of Soonr (at www.soonr.com) and check it out — I’ll write more shortly.
Soonr is wicked when it is working well but there is a problem that stopped me using it. When I was just messing about with soonr, it always worked perfectly. However, when it was a matter of life and death as in the example cited above it never ever worked. Every single time it could have acted as a lifeline, I would only be able to access emails from a week before and that flight booking or whatever just wouldnt materialise. I have no idea why this happened and just gave up on it in the end as being too unpredictable. Shame because if they sorted it out and did the job it would be phenomenal.