by Steve Simon
Think about all the time you spend social networking. It's a time consuming job to track your Facebook and MySpace pages--and think of all those tweets on Twitter!
Some people would say you need arms like an Octopus to keep track of everything.
Mark Schmulen has two arms--and one good idea. He is co-founder of Nutshell Mail. The Houston-based company is changing the way we connect. Nutshell Mail condenses all correspondence to your social network sites into a free daily e-mail.
It's an easy-to-read digest of who's contacting you. You decide how many times a day you want to get updated.
In less than a year about 10,000 people have signed-up. Others have also noticed.
Schmulen and co-founder Dave Lymon just got back from 3 months at Facebook Corporate Headquarters. Nutshell received funding and direction from the Facebook Fund---a way to help emerging companies that integrate social networking.
The idea for Nutshell came when both men worked in the corporate world. Firewalls on their work computers blocked access to their social network, so e-mail was the only way to connect to that world.
Soon, Nutshell will let you filter who you want and don't want in that daily digest.
