Category Archives: Email

Curated computing: jargon (sometimes) is a good thing

Posted on May 16, 2010 by rahulgaitonde

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 →

Posted in Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Email, Facebook, google, Insights, internet, iphone, Marketing, mobile, Predictions, Trends, UI | Comments Off

Pieces of Blog

Posted on December 26, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

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 →

Posted in Blogs, Editorials, Email, Ideas | Comments Off

The Mobile Internet Lifestyle

Posted on August 9, 2008 by rahulgaitonde

(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?

Posted on June 23, 2008 by rahulgaitonde

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

Posted on May 9, 2008 by rahulgaitonde

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 →

Posted in Amazon, Email, Ideas | 3 Comments

Moving to an Online Life

Posted on April 14, 2008 by rahulgaitonde

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

Posted on March 2, 2008 by rahulgaitonde

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.

Posted on September 25, 2006 by rahulgaitonde

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 →

Posted in Email, Insights, Spam | 1 Comment

Gmail and managing clutter

Posted on May 6, 2006 by rahulgaitonde

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