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Creepiest Outlook Plug-in From Zendio Tracks Your Emails (readwriteweb)

Those of us who have used email alot, (see my email memories story here) have
often wished we could know if our recipients have opened and read our
messages. And while there have been read-receipts on various email services
for many years, until now there hasn't been a general-purpose tool that can
track when someone actually opens your messages. Enter Zendio with their plug-
in for Outlook. And while it works, it is probably the creepiest solution that
I've seen.

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For Zendio to work, all your messages have to originate from your Outlook
inbox, which makes sense. You install the plug-in, which is somewhat of a
misnomer because it requires all sorts of Microsoft support software,
depending on which Windows OS and which Office version you are running. I
tried it on XP with SP2 on Outlook 2007 connecting to my Google Apps mailbox
and it seemed to do fine. It embeds small snippets of HTML code into your
messages to enable the tracking feature.

Zendio shows you exactly when someone opened your message, and tries to
geolocate the recipient. It wasn't completely accurate for my simple test,
although it did come within a few miles ...

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