The question is:
What do you want to see when you first open up your email client?
Follow-up. If your answer was the last email in your inbox, what if you have no email in your inbox?
Some thoughts:
A blank page is not acceptable
A page that displays project information or product feature information is not the right answer
Page must be simple, fluid (because of the different views), and easy to localize
It’s unclear whether the measure of a good start page will be based on activity on that page or high clickthrough since the next step after seeing the Start page is to go to the inbox and check for new email/read email. However, a user will go back to the Mail Start page and then may want to do something from that page after reading email.
Here’s the current Thunderbird start page vert view (above) and in classic view . It’s actually more of a Welcome page versus a Start page where a Start page is something you see everyda...
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Limit Point Software has announced Mailings 1.9.45, a full featured application for batch emailing that delivers any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates etc. Mailings facilitates the task of delivering regular bulk email distributions with such features as logging, progress monitoring, scheduling, error recovery, throttling, personalization and much more.
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The AOL mail blog published a sarcastic letter suggesting that Gmail copied various features from them . The premise of the post is that Gmail is “dressing up as AOL" for Halloween:
In other Halloween news, the head of Google’s web spam team Matt Cutts dressed up as Rick Astley this year .
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AOL Mail Team Blows It Bigtime :
AOL is, on the whole, doing things right by its users and the web in general these days.
However, the mail team blew it with this bone-headed post complaining about GMail and written on… ... more
Numa carta totalmente irónica eis que o AOL desejou um feliz halloween ao Gmail. O AOL mail nessa carta diz, embora não directamente, que o Gmail roubou algumas ideias já incorporadas no AOL Mail.
Entre as acusações estão a de que o Gmail supostamente teria copiado o serviço de envio de mensagens para o telemóveis dos contactos, já presente no AOL Mail há alguns anos.
Por fim, atacam o detector de anexos esquecidos, dizendo que a AOL implementou este recurso em 2007 e que seus uti... more
Earlier this month both AOL and Yahoo redesigned their home pages to include more links to outside services. The new AOL homepage features prominent links to Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail, as well as to bookmarks leading elsewhere, and integration with Facebook and MySpace. Yahoo’s new home page, which it is still bucket testing selectively, also includes more directlinkstoother e-mail providers, social networks, and a new left-hand channel strip that can be modeified by suers ... more
Yahoo is beginning the transition to its new socially-enabled platform, laying the foundation for a "universal profile" today. The new profile page will allow users to make limited changes to their profiles, such as status updates, adding connections (friends in the social graph) from their Yahoo address book and listing interests. Users can change settings, control permissions and manage notifications across various Yahoo properties. However, only Yahoo Buzz activity feeds (what Ya... more
Many Web startups have learned that simply coming up with a great idea or developing a slick product is no guarantee of success. A site or service that hopes to achieve long-term viability needs a sound business plan, talented staff, and management smarts.
But the giants of the Web world have learned that dominance comes through a number of additional factors, including:
Appealing to a broad set of users or customers
Making a product that is massively scalable
Taking an early lead in... more
I signed up for Ironman Arizona 2007 . I’m thinking about signing up for Ironman Canada 2007 also, which will be the 25th anniversary of Ironman Canada. We’ll see.
I think it’s looking like Ironman New Zealand 2008 also.
I could use company for Ironman Arizona and Ironman New Zealand. Ironman #’s 4, 5, and 6 for me look like they’re taking shape.
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…the more they stay the same. There really is nothing wrong!!! w/ polo shirts (w/ white t-shirts underneath), khaki shorts, socks w/ sandals.
rebron 1.0
volume.com hat (a gimme from Junaid)
Armani glasses w/ clip on sunglasses
polo shirts from Old Navy/Gap
shorts from Old Navy/Gap
calvin klein boxers
Birkenstocks
rebron 2.0
Firefox hat
BCBG glasses, Oakley sunglasses
polo shirts from American Apparel /Banana Republic
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Going to go back to focusing mostly on training, mozilla.org stuff, and recommendations, etc versus personal stuff. Working on a massive clean-up. I will still announce availability and calendar type things.
I’ll be unavailable from May 16 - 23, no web access and no phone access.
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I have a draft Summer/Fall workout schedule for myself and a friend. It’s 16 weeks long, broken down into 4 week chunks, mostly running and a placeholder for “core” workouts.
It’s geared towards a half-marathon running level. I’ll be adding some swimming and cycling to it too or probably make a different copy with swimming and cycling, geared towards a half-Ironman distance.
If you find it useful, let me know.
Google Docs is becoming very usable. Goog... more
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