Category Archives: e-mail

Email isn’t dead yet, but it needs radical innovation

Posted on July 2, 2008 by vanelsas

Alex Iskold has a good write up on the competition e-mail is facing from broadcasting tools like blogs and twitter, discussion tools like forums and wiki’s, or business tools like Todo, CRM. He asks himself is E-mail in danger? He … Continue reading →

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Will Microsoft and Yahoo create the biggest social network ever?

Posted on February 4, 2008 by vanelsas

There is a lot of talk about the Microsoft takeover attempt of Yahoo this weekend. TechMeme is flooded with blog posts about the subject. I’m not so interested in the “breaking news” factor, but I am more interested in the … Continue reading →

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Is Yahoo getting back into the game?

Posted on January 9, 2008 by vanelsas

I’m wondering if Yahoo is slowly getting back into the game. They have incredible amounts of traffic to their sites but never seem to be able to convert it into great services and loads of revenues, when compared to a … Continue reading →

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We need a revolution in Mobile UI thinking

Posted on December 4, 2007 by vanelsas

A few days ago I was fiddling around with my mobile phone (a Nokia N95) and it occurred to me (yet again) that the current mobile phone user interface just doesn’t work for me. Yes, the screens have become much … Continue reading →

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Inbox 2.0: Huh, did we have gold in our hands already?

Posted on November 14, 2007 by vanelsas

I don’t often write posts that are this short ;-). But having read the NY Times article + discussions here and here on Google and Yahoo’s plans for e-mail and it’s possibile ability to become a social networking thing I … Continue reading →

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Dear Yahoo, Microsoft, Google e-mail. Forget Facebook, start innovating!

Posted on October 19, 2007 by vanelsas

I read an article this morning by the Wall Street Journal on social features in e-mail. In this article they state that e-mail providers are trying to gain back ground from social networking sites like Facebook  by adding social features … Continue reading →

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