Good Email Club帮你从收件箱中找出传递“正能量”的邮件
我承认，有时一封内容粗鲁、刻薄的电子邮件会毁掉我一早上的心情，特别是它是我醒来第一眼看到的东西时。
看起来， 简卡尔·比森（JeanCarl Bisson，IBM 的技术布道者）和 艾达什·乌普拉（Adarsh Uppula，人才招聘创业公司 Gogohire 的联合创始人）也曾经遇到过这个问题。正因为如此，他们在本周末的 TechCrunch Disrupt 黑客马拉松上打造了一项称为“Good Email Club”的服务。
比森和乌普拉将这项服务与 Microsoft Outlook 和 IBM Watson 进行了整合——Good Email Club 利用 Watson 技术来分析用户 Outlook 电子邮件中透露的情绪。接着，它会确认传递“正能量”的电子邮件，创建一个文字转语音的阅读列表。
换言之，一觉醒来，你会听到收件箱中态度最积极的消息，以此作为一天的开始。我猜你可能仍然想看到一些让人不太爽的电子邮件，但乌普拉称这种邮件的数量会减少，毕竟你需要以积极的心态开始一天的工作。
尽管 Good Email Club 是专门为 Outlook 帐号开发的，但比森也表示该应用可能会支持任何一家电子邮件服务提供商。
若想实现这一目标，比森和乌普拉就必须继续从事这个项目的开发。他们二人表示，他们对任何可能性都持开放的态度，或至少自己会试用 Good Email Club——虽然该应用的商业前景有限。
“我也不清楚会有多少人付费使用。”乌普拉说。
这并不是比森与乌普拉合作的第一个项目。他们二人已经在黑客马拉松比赛上多次相遇——比森估计他已经参加了 100 多个这样的比赛。比森承认，将 24 小时的辛勤工作浓缩为 1 分钟的展示，这个过程确实很难，但他也表示，“我们总是会取得一些成绩，然后努力学会新东西。”
Good Email Club Reads You The Positive Emails In Your Inbox
I’ll admit it: Sometimes a mean or pushy email can ruin my whole morning, especially if it’s the very first thing I see.
It seems like JeanCarl Bisson (a technical evangelist for IBM) and Adarsh Uppula (co-founder at hiring startup Gogohire) have had this problem, too. That’s why they built a service called Good Email Club at this weekend’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon.
Bisson and Uppula integrated the service with Microsoft Outlook and IBM Watson — Good Email Club uses Watson to analyze the sentiment of your Outlook emails. It then identifies the positive emails and creates a list for reading via text-to-speech.
In other words, imagine starting your day off right by listening to the best messages in your inbox as you drive to work. I suppose you’ll still know that there are probably less pleasant emails waiting for you, but Uppula said they’ll hold less sway because you started positively.
And while this was built for Outlook accounts, Bisson said this could potentially work with any email provider.
For that to happen, Bisson and Uppula would have to keep working on the project. They said they’re open to the possibility, or at least to trying Good Email Club out for themselves — though the commercial prospects might be limited.
“I’m not sure how many people would be paying for it,” Uppula said.
This isn’t the pair’s first project, either. They actually met through hackathons, and Bisson estimated that he’s been to more than 100 of them. Bisson admitted that boiling down 24 hours of work into a one-minute pitch can be tough, but he added, “We always walk away with something and try to learn something new.”
来源：TC
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