Month: March 2006

_Francois Lane is a Montreal-based Internet entrepreneur. Since 1996, he has spearheaded a number of projects in the French Canadian market, including an e-commerce store for computer equipment, a blog application, a networked community service, a viral contest website, and Web hosting and email marketing services. “NewsletterArchive.org”:http://www.newsletterarchive.org is Francois’s first venture to target a global audience._
*One Degree: Tell me about NewsletterArchive.*
NewsletterArchive.org is like Archive.org’s “Wayback Machine”:http://www.archive.org/, except it’s for newsletters. The goal is to collect, preserve and provide public access to all email newsletters – past, present and future. You could also see it as a giant shared webmail account for newsletter subscriptions.
Unlike Web pages, newsletters aren’t archived and available on the Web. This means that the portion of the Internet’s history contained in newsletters exists only in the personal archives of those who have received them and have decided to keep them. NewsletterArchive aims to gather this common heritage in one place, preserve it and make it available to everyone.
*One Degree: Where did the original idea come from?*