<p>While most tools of the digital communication age continue to evolve, for some reason email has been curiously (and tragically) stuck in the past. Online email clients have replaced clunky desktop software, and spam filters have vastly improved, but at its core, email today functions much like it did in the '90s.</p><p>MxHero, a New York City-based startup (and recent graduate from Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator), hopes to save us from the archaic limitations of email with a universal platform that can work across any email provider.</p><p>Today the company is launching a Google Chrome extension that will give any Gmail user a taste of its platform, including the ability to send a self-destructing email, notifications of when recipients access attachments, and the ability to send batch personalized emails. The latter feature is particularly intriguing, because it solves the ugly blind carbon copy hack for sending batch messages without sharing all of the recipients (i.e., putting your recipients in the "BCC" field and your own address in the "To" field.)</p><p>While the extension is MxHero's first direct-to-consumer offering, the company's technology has already been implemented by the likes of Zimbra, Box, and VMWare. MxHero's technology can be implemented as both a cloud service and an on-site service (which should make stodgy IT departments happy). It also works across any email platform.</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/20/mxhero-chrome-gmail-extension/">Keep reading...</a></p>