Category Archives: Email

Curated computing: jargon (sometimes) is a good thing

Curated Computing: Fancy cynical analyst term. Here is Forrester Research declaring a new era (‘Post-iPad’, no less). A consumer can do anything with a Windows PC or Mac… the iPad operates very differently. [It] works more like a jukebox than … Continue reading

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Pieces of Blog

Joshua Schachter of Del.icio.us fame on how the different parts of a blogging system could be decoupled and run off specialized web applications: authoring by desktop apps, storage of raw posts and hosting on Amazon S3, templates by WordPress, feeds … Continue reading

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Expanding social networks and shortening attention spans

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits fame has ditched email and will primarily use Twitter: … the people I communicate with the most are (mostly) on Twitter. What I love about Twitter is that it’s very limited (140 characters), so you … Continue reading

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The Mobile Internet Lifestyle

(This post began as a reply to a comment question on my previous blog post about iPhone 3G. It’s also a complete re-write of an earlier post.) My experience with the Internet on my Nokia N82 has been more than … Continue reading

Posted in Editorials, Email, Facebook, Gmail, IM, internet, mobile, Nokia, Opera, Social, twitter | 4 Comments

What makes Xobni so popular?

Xobni is an Outlook plugin that has proven remarkably useful in managing managing bloated inboxes. It’s generated its fair share of buzz lately, and most users seem to love it. Apart from a clutch of very well-implemented features, what it … Continue reading

Posted in Analytics, Editorials, Email, Insights, Marketing, Microsoft, Outlook, Social, Xobni | 1 Comment

Next-Generation Email: separating Interface from Storage

There is a market for start-ups that provide only an interface for existing email. For people who are willing to pay for (cheap) storage of their email and for bandwidth. Users will be able to migrate from and to such … Continue reading

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Moving to an Online Life

So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD … Continue reading

Posted in Blogs, Editorials, Email, Firefox, Gmail, google, HowTos, IM, internet, mobile, Nokia, RSS, Social, Thunderbird | 6 Comments

Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2

So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving. Things … Continue reading

Posted in Email, mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 4 Comments

Signalling and Stamped Email.

Heard of the lemon and plum theory? No? Hold on, I’ll explain using the classic “used car” model from Economics 101. Consider a market for used cars where half of the sellers have “bad” used cars on offer (let’s call … Continue reading

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Gmail and managing clutter

It’s official – Gmail’s conversation view is the best way to manage lots of email. Evidence? Well, the internal mailing list that IIM Kozhikode students set up has seen well over a thousand messages in the past three weeks. Almost … Continue reading

Posted in Email, Gmail, Insights, LotusNotes, Thunderbird | 6 Comments