(See this later posting for a response from MSN and Yahoo.) Here’s possible evidence that Gmail is not alone in scanning your email in order to target ads at you. MarketingVOX (‘The Voice of Online Marketing’) reports that “the strange mix of privacy advocates, anti-globalists and anti-commercial groups that seem to be swarming on Google… Read More »
A great piece of software for the Mac, Tinderbox, has just gone to version 2.2. Tinderbox is a note taker but has moved into interesting new areas, not least blogging. Tinderbox 2.2 offers a nod in this direction, offering new features such as Quick Lists and support for formatting in RSS and Atom, but it is, at… Read More »
Gmail: Better than spam? ClickZ reports that an interesting side effect of Google’s new ad-supported email application, Gmail, are contextual ads from competitors. “Because the contextual ads are targeted based on e-mail message content, as determined by Google’s technology, commercial messages are the ones most likely to trigger ads. That’s because they’re most likely to… Read More »
I’ve been quiet on Gmail because I wasn’t sure it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day prank, but it appears that it’s not. The view seems to be that it’s simple, powerful and feature-packed. What features could you put in webmail? Here are some I’ve seen referred to (see sources below): easy email threading, where connected… Read More »
This week’s Loose Wire column is about software: IT’S TIME TO GET PERSONAL. Here’s a list of software I–and a few folk I know–can’t live without. These items may not be for everyone, but some of them could change your life. (Unfortunately for Apple and Linux users, they’re all for Windows.) Full text at the… Read More »