Posts Tagged ‘email’
Google Wave is a pretty impressive demo, and the fact that they are open sourcing most of it, documenting the protocol and enabling federation is a major win, but I’m hesitant to think it will replace email anytime soon, if ever.
John Gruber has a very interesting observation:
Communication systems that succeed are usually conceptually simple: the [...]
Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in Google, Internet | No Comments »
I buy a decent amount of stuff online, both physical goods and services from various vendors. It amazes me how few get the order confirmation and shipment notification emails right. Most companies do a downright awful job.
Order Confirmation
Order confirmations should be sent shortly after an order has been sent and the [...]
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in Internet | No Comments »
I got a few emails in the past 24 hours that need to be addressed. I’ve seen both of these issues before, but never has it become so common that I see two almost back to back.
Character Encoding
VideoSurf sent me an invitation to check out their product. Unfortunately I’m a somewhat busy person [...]
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Spam | No Comments »
Yahoo owned Zimbra released the latest Zimbra Desktop today. At a glance it seems pretty nice. Essentially Yahoo Mail running on Mozilla Prism. It does seem somewhat of a large download for what it is. But maybe they still have some fat to trim. What is now Firefox was pretty [...]
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Mozilla, Software | 1 Comment »
Google has recently upped their profile in regards to security and privacy. Last week Google made the subtle change of adding a privacy link to the homepage. This is common on most sites, but avoided by Google because they are very strict about cluttering their homepage. Privacy groups have wanted this for [...]
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Google, Security | No Comments »
Apple announced it’s Enterprise offering as well as the long awaited SDK for the iPhone today. A few thoughts:
Enterprise Offering
Pretty impressive, at least the way it sounds. I have a feeling they are dead serious on this one. Exchange support, and the administrative stuff will be very big wins. I also [...]
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Apple | No Comments »
I’m going to make a giant proposal to the web. Identifiers suck. Email, IM, Phone, etc. Most people have more than one of each. Lets fix that. Step by step.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Internet, Networking | 3 Comments »
I got my copy of Mac OS X 10.5 earlier this week. Bought it from J&R (via Amazon) since it was $99 + shipping, less than Amazon itself was selling it for. For some reason both of them are able to undercut Apple (even with a corporate discount) which seemed odd. Here’s [...]
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 Posted in Apple, Software | 9 Comments »
ComputerWorld has a rather good showdown of email clients on Mac OS X. The best breakdown of features I’ve seen on the Mac side in some time.
That said, I think they were slightly unfair to Thunderbird. For example, Thunderbird does have calendar support via Lightning which wasn’t mentioned (though it does [...]
Monday, October 8th, 2007 Posted in Apple, Mozilla, Software | No Comments »
Did you catch that title? Thunderbird has a new home, but it’s not moving far. I mentioned this a few weeks ago. The most interesting bit is this:
The new organization doesn’t have a name yet, so I’ll call it MailCo here. MailCo will be part of the Mozilla Foundation and will serve [...]
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla | 1 Comment »