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StatusPrivately Held
Websitewww.grouply.com
Blogblog.grouply.com
CategoryWeb
Phone(650) 568-9824
Emailfeedback@grouply.com
Address 495 Seaport Court, Suite 103
Redwood City, CA, 94063
USA
Employees6
Founded3/06

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Grouply

Grouply enables you to access all of your email lists, discussion boards, and online groups like Yahoo Groups and Google Groups from one place with a superior user experience.

People love their groups, but they are frustrated and overwhelmed by all the events, announcements, classified ads, job postings, and questions and answers piling up in their inboxes. With Grouply’s Intelligent Filtering System, you can keep up with your existing online groups in 80% less time.

Other offerings such as Ning enable a group leader to start a new group from scratch, each on its own website. But this makes the problem worse for end users, not better. Most people already belong to a number of groups across different systems, and the last thing they want is yet another website to go to. Grouply is unique because it integrates all your existing groups into a single website. You access all of your existing Yahoo Groups through Grouply even while others continue to access them through Yahoo, and the Grouply Real-time Integration Engine keeps everything in sync automatically.

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Grouply Smart Digest

Websitewww.grouply.com
Launch DateSeptember 30, 2007
Tags ad-supported-software

As a Grouply user, you receive a single Smart Digestâ„¢ email each day that summarizes what’s going on across all your groups, highlighting what’s interesting to you and hiding what’s not.

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Above: Grouply Smart Digest Screenshot -- #1
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Above: Grouply Smart Digest Screenshot -- #2

Grouply Website

Websitewww.grouply.com
Launch DateSeptember 30, 2007
Tags ad-supported-software

Grouply enables you to access all your existing groups from one place. You can search or browse all your groups at once. You can view a single cross-group event calendar and see the most active discussions and other useful summaries that cover all your groups.

Grouply recognizes different message types such as Event, For Sale, News, and Discussion. Users who opt to post messages from the Grouply website are presented with a template specific to their message type, simplifying the posting process and ensuring that key information isn’t missed. Messages types also make it easier to pick out interesting new messages from the flood that arrives each day.

Grouply converts your groups from simple email lists into a vibrant social networks. Besides reading and posting messages, Grouply users can rate, tag, bookmark, and edit messages. Grouply aggregates this social metadata and presents it back to users in exciting ways. You can view the most popular messages and discover the most popular topics or authors in a group. Grouply suggests groups you might like to join and people with interests similar to yours. In Grouply, a user’s profile page is dynamic, reflecting the user’s latest activity in the groups you share.

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Above: Grouply Website Screenshot -- #1
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CWGI Executive Director - February 15, 2008 at 10:00pm
Warning to Grouply existing and potential members: Both Grouply's and Yahoo's Terms of Service state that members are responsible for maintaining Yahoo account integrity and if something goes amiss within your account or because of your account, you are responsible for the actions because you handed out your private account information. Yahoo further verified today in a statement on their blog that Grouply/Yahoo members may be justly charged with violation of Yahoo Terms of Service and removed from Yahoo for allowing their account information to cause a security breech within a Yahoo Group where group owners hold authority. If you do not want to be held liable for security violations, keep your Yahoo account information private and steer clear of Grouply and other like third party services. Yahoo Resource: http://tinyurl.com/2u3987
Mark Robins - February 15, 2008 at 9:17pm
@C. Carter: Grouply maintains all of the privacy of your group messages. You must be a member of a given group in order to access that group’s messages in Grouply. Grouply simply provides you an improved way to interact with the messages that you are already entitled to see. More here: http://blog.grouply.com/protect#messages. Mark Robins CEO, Grouply
Dennis Koenig - February 15, 2008 at 3:39am
This CrunchBase article does not mention that in order to use the Grouply service, a Yahoo! Groups user must give grouply.com their Yahoo! ID **AND PASSWORD**. (For Yahoo! Group owners/moderators, this effectively makes Grouply equivalent to them in terms of control of their groups.) Yahoo!'s Terms of Service (TOS) statement is very clear in saying that their users are "fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account." [http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html] Yahoo! also says that their users "cannot re-post or re-transmit Groups content to any other site unless the person has the explicit permission of every group member whose content is being re-posted or re-transmitted." [http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines.html]. Since the Grouply subscriber is enabling Grouply to pull data from Yahoo! Groups archives, it seems that user is stretching the limits of the TOS, and maybe even subjecting themselves to possible liability for what gets done "in their name" using their password. Note that once Grouply pulls a Yahoo! Groups message archive (as they do), then Yahoo! itself is no longer in control of it, cannot secure it, protect the privacy of its members' postings, etc. Risky business.

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