Archives for the 'email' Category
Friday’s Brain Dead Emails
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
The McKinsey Quarterly Goes Social
The McKinsey Quarterly dropped me an email yesterday to let me know about the exciting new features that they’ve added: RSS feeds and social bookmarking! A very social and up-to-date organization, apparently. Interesting, then that they still follow the distinctly anti-social practice of sending me email from a dead address, [...]
Email Notes: Two Good Ways to Fuck Things Up
Monday, September 17th, 2007
It’s funny: I don’t both to write much about email these days. For the most part, that’s because most of the email that I see these days falls into the great undifferentiated pool of average…neither particularly good nor particularly bad.
But then we have times like this weekend, when examples just jump right up [...]
Administrative Note: oops
Friday, December 8th, 2006
So I have this little problem. I tend to accumulate domain names, Web/email hosts, shell accounts, and what-have-you. This has, over the years, resulted in the evolution of a web of redirection, forwarding, mapping, and re-redirection between the services running on these various entities that Rube Goldberg would consider impractical and excessive.
Why [...]
More like Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Monday, April 24th, 2006
And an update on Gmail/AOL fun, also via IP:
From: Carl Hutzler [XXX@aol.com]
Sent: Tue 4/25/2006 7:02 AM
To: ip@v2.listbox.com; David Farber
Subject: Update [Re: [IP] AOL blocking Gmail]
As promised, an update.
Late last night around 11pm, we added into our whitelist a number of
Gmail IP addresses for their outbound systems. Evidently gmail had sent
us an email asking for more [...]
Thesis, Antithesis: Amazon Makes Intelligent Use of Email
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
Shortly after trashing eBay for their sad little email personalization efforts in a recent post, I received an email from Amazon. The start of that email is reproduced below:
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased “Svefn-G-Englar” by Sigur Rós also purchased the work of M83. For this reason, you might like to [...]
Personalizing, My Ass
Monday, January 17th, 2005
No, not this sort of thing — note the position of the comma in the title, please.
Advertisers love the word “personalization,” particularly in the context of online advertising where everything is handled by machines — often tied to a database of information about the individual being targeted — and the costs of personalization are therefore [...]
Mars Wants Women
Thursday, October 21st, 2004
…and startup Affini, currently offering a Beta product, wants to stop spam in an exciting new way! Oh, and by the way, they also want you to provide a fair amount of demographic information! And if you want to provide them with information on your paypal account or credit card, you’ll get access [...]
