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Zenbe Mail will be shutting down on Oct 8th, 2010.  However, you will still be able to access your Shareflow data.  After Oct 8th, logging in will bring you directly into Shareflow without the email component.

When we started Zenbe, our original goal was to build the next generation of email.  We’re proud of many of the unique features we pioneered, many of which are still ahead of the curve. We built Zenbe Mail as email users ourselves, and we feel it’s still arguably the very best email experience available.

Meanwhile, over the last few years, the communication landscape has fundamentally changed. Hundreds of millions of smartphones are in use everyday, transforming personal communication. Facebook, Twitter, and other social services have dramatically changed the ways in which people share social information.

Those changes led us to build Shareflow as a way to have more natural conversations and reduce inbox clutter. Recently we’ve  started to explore even more focused Shareflow-like conversations. Blacktop lets you create “trips” from your Foursquare and Facebook check-ins, share those trips, and have conversations about them. Facebook recently highlighted Blacktop in a post on their Platform Page.  And we have plans to bring conversation features to our most popular app, Zenbe Lists.

Unfortunately, as a small company we don’t have enough resources to continue to support all four of our current products.  It was a difficult decision for us, but we ultimately decided to discontinue Mail and focus our efforts on Lists, Shareflow and Blacktop. These, and other mobile, social, sharing applications will be Zenbe’s core focus going forward.

We want to thank our Mail users for supporting us, we understand many of you have come to depend on our mail service for your personal and business email needs.  We apologize for any inconvenience this will cause. We’ve developed a detailed migration guide that will help ease your transition to another email service.  The guide will answer many of your specific questions.  Note, we stopped our billing for Mail a month ago, and we’ll not bill any accounts during this migration period.

Lastly, Zenbe Mail was a labor of love. We’re going to miss it, too.