Thinmail, Inc. is a privately-held company incorporated in Massachusetts. Our mission is to create value by radically improving the usability of email between computers and wireless and thin devices.

Thinmail is very simple to use and does not require users to download or setup any applications or change their email behavior. Thinmail simply turns attachments into private hyperlinks. Thinmail Links, however, are not "published" web pages, but individual user's keys to files.

These links work exactly like email attachments enabling multimedia email functionality on all devices, not just high powered PC workstations.

Thinmail offers an array of useful business services on documents such as storage, retrieval, faxing, forwarding, phoning, and converting the format of email attachments. The operations work both on attached files and embedded Thinmail Links. These services are available both from an intuitive and easy to use web interface, as well as with simple email commands from any text messaging system.

Thinmail also developed a unique identity system, which lets people change the email address dynamically.

While valuable for anyone with slow modems, inbox storage limitations, and for small businesses wishing to send content politely, the ability to manage big files is unique on today's wireless devices.

Thinmail History

• Jan 1999 Invention by Jordan Pollack
• March1999 Brandeis releases all rights and interests in invention.
• April 1999 Patent application is filed with US PTO
• May 1999 Thinmail is incorporated
• June 1999 Vadim Yasinovsky joins Board of Directors
• July 1999 Alpha prototype hosted at www.thinmail.com
• August 1999 Mitchell Russo joins Advisory Board
• Sept 1999 Thinmail offers private placement
• Nov 1999 Thinmail closes private placement offer
• Dec 1999 Beta prototype with Faxing on Palm 7
• Jan 2000 Jeremy Gilbert joins Thinmail full-time.
• Jan 2000 Bruce Lynch joins Advisory Board
• April 2000 New Architecture Beta Test
• Sept 2000 Thinmail 1.0 goes live on the Internet
• Oct 2000 Upgrade of workspace GUI
• Nov 2000 First strategic partnership (3Cube)
• Jan 2001 First media enterprise customer (Science News)
• May 2001 All Patent Claims are allowed by USPTO
• June 2001 Upgrade and Basic Subscription
• August 2001 CEO David Dines joins Thinmail full-time
• August 2001 Thinfax trademark is registered
• Sept 2001 Jeffrey M. Stibel named to Board of Directors
• Oct 2001 Upgrade to download features
• Nov 2001 BETA Release of THINPHONE product
• March 2002 Carl Yankowksi & Abbot Gilman become Advisors

Thinmail in The News!

Aug 2000 Smaller.com
Sep 2000 Red Herring
Sep 2000 Boston Globe
Oct 2000 Wireless Week
Nov 2000 Anywhere You Go
Nov 2000 ZDNet Wireless Community
Jan 2001 I-Wireless Newsletter (#52)
Mar 2001 MBusiness
Apr 2001 Technology Review
Jun 2001 NY Times
Nov 2001 Network World Fusion

Learn More about Thinmail's Founder

Jordan B. Pollack is a lifelong inventor who has worked on computer systems since 1975. He received the Ph.D from University of Illinois in 1987, and is on the faculty of Brandeis University directing the DEMO Laboratory. He has produced many recognized advances in areas like natural language processing, parallel computing, neural networks, evolutionary computation, machine learning, robotics, and complex adaptive "artificial life" systems. He consulted as Chief Scientist to Abuzz, and helped design their adaptive knowledge management system.

Pollack's work has been reported on in the media. Here are some highlights:

Wired (May 1997)

Slashdot interview (April 2000)

NY Times Front Page (Aug 2000)

Scientific American Frontiers TV (January 2001)

MIT's Technology Review, (January 2001) Named a "TR 10"

The Edge Interview (April 2001)

Boston Globe, (October 2001)