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GMail Suffers 2nd Outage in a Month

Sep. 24, 2009

For the second time in a month, a GMail disruption is creating a panic.
On September 1, 2009, global users of Google Mail experienced a lack of connectivity, something we’d seen in the past, such as the panic of February 24.
The latest attack involves the server holding your contacts. GMail is not trending on Twitter yet, [...]

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Join FeedBite.com and Receive Unwanted Spam

Aug. 26, 2009

Jack Humphrey at the Friday Traffic Report reviewed content aggregator FeedBite and compared it to FriendFeed, a tool I began using many months ago.
Think FriendFeed but with portable widgets.
Two cool uses for this free feed aggregation service are:
1. Public and private feed mashups you can collect and use for research privately or share with [...]

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Hacking Hotmail Accounts is Easy

Aug. 25, 2009

It is not a stretch, based on the following chart of Google keywords searched, to surmise people with hotmail email accounts are more susceptible to hacker attacks than other free webmail accounts.
Of 1,583 email addresses in my list of contacts, I observe 158 use yahoo.com addresses, 138 use gmail.com, and 30 use hotmail.com. (I assume [...]

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Why Email Marketing Still Sucks

Aug. 15, 2009

That damn redhead, Stacy Lukasavitz, in her marketing guidance for email etiquette, reminds me of a memorable message I received this week:

Unlike Stacy’s guy who insists she visit a software website, my guy uses more passive language; but that’s the only difference.
The content of both email messages and their subject lines are evidence both Peter [...]

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Market Emails Timely, Unlike Yokway

Jul. 28, 2009

I received this email invitation a few hours ago:
Note the date of July 27, 2009.
Louis Gray wrote a product review of Yokway in March 2008 and the company’s Twitter feed @yokway hasn’t been updated since December 2008.
The kicker is I never heard of Yokway and turned to Google for help.
With this background, why did I [...]

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Emailing Me Internet Marketing Spam

May. 20, 2009

I’m accustomed to receiving email spam, but internet marketing pitches are a new breed because they arrive in my inbox, not my spam folder.
The good ones are personable and hard to tell if generic text. The bad ones, like the email I copy below, include spelling errors and attribute me to the wrong website.
Hi
My name [...]

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