AwayFind  ♥ Gmail

Our goal is to help everyone escape their inboxes, but rather than provide basic support to a lot of providers, we want to provide a phenomenal experience for the platforms we support.  And in the last few weeks we’ve made that clear with our deep support for Gmail (and we’ve got more coming, too).

Check out our AwayFind for Gmail plug-in, which is available as either a Firefox Add-on or Chrome Extension:

Existing AwayFind Users – Install It From Here

The other big Gmail improvement is that we now support Gmail (IMAP) via oAuth—which is a fancy way of saying we can connect to your Gmail account without storing your email password.  It makes for a faster setup process, more security (we won’t request or store your Gmail password), and no need for you to update AwayFind if you change your password in Gmail.

Upgrade your Gmail Account or Add Another Here

Press ♥ AwayFind

Perhaps it’s the new features…but whatever it is, we’re thrilled that people are talking about AwayFind.  We’ve had over 130 articles about us, but in the last couple weeks we had some coverage we’re particularly proud of.

At ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez wrote a thorough AwayFind review.  As Sarah’s been a long time user of AwayFind (thanks!!), she did a great job examining what’s changed with AwayFind Orchant.  (Also cool: the article was syndicated in the New York Times)

While we’ve also been on some popular sites in the last couple weeks (like DownloadSquad and wwwhat’s new, a South American site which sent us hundreds of signups), our most exciting coverage was a 2-minute segment by CM&’s technology correspondent.  This story aired on a major prime time television station in Columbia, and sent us more users than any other to date.  Check it out:

We really hope these new features make a huge impact.  Thanks so much for entrusting us to keep you away from your inbox!