Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Honeywell had it right in this vintage magazine ad from 1981. Email: confounding blasts of out-of-control electrons. Sometimes it’s useful, most of the time it’s anatomically and/or financially incorrect.
Back in 2003, tech blogger Paul Soltoff wrote about his predictions for email. There’s a tendency when one predicts the future to focus on [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
For the past three weeks I’ve been getting spam email with the subject “greeting card sent to you..” Of course, as soon as you open the email, it’s evident that it’s an IP address link (HIGH ALERT FOR PIRATE ATTACK!) So, I’ve been ignoring them, and guess what, the byproduct is that I’ll [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
A good idea and a bit of Ruby - and voila… l8r.nu (as in Later, dude!). This Dutch web service is barely a month old. It allows you to compose email messages and schedule their future delivery. For bloggers it’s similar to scheduling posts in WordPress.
Using it is super easy, although L8R’s creator has had [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
A favorite theme of ours is the “naming of startups”. Back in 99, we named our company “anbiun” - an upside down version of “unique”. San Francisco-based Xobni (backwards for inbox) is worth watching. They’re mashing up analytics and email to create a more intelligent inbox.
Tags: xobni, email
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Posted on March 20th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
I just received this nasty email with the title “Dispute Transaction”. It just triggered within me an instant reaction. I guess I never trusted PayPal that much so when I saw the email I figured, “Darn those guys! They’ve messed up again!” So I instantly hit the ‘dispute this’ link and then started putting my [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Jobe Roberts
The idea of having an expiry date on emails has always appealed to me. A couple of years ago I built a proof of concept email delivery system which would let me do exactly that. The message content of the email was pulled from a server. So after sending an email, the content could be [...]
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