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First gmail, now Yahoo mail is down

September 3, 2009

good grief, it looks like it’s Yahoo Mail’s turn to go down in flames: I’m sure they will have service restored soon. But it’s particularly more galling given that 1. I snarkily defended Yahoo Mail during the gmail outage (oh, karma!) and 2. unlike gmail, I’m a paying customer for Yahoo’s Plus service (no ads, [...]

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declaration of email independence

March 23, 2008

Michael Arrington laments the state of his inbox, and calls for someone to solve the problem of email gone wild. The problem with email is that it doesn’t scale. The solution of creating complex rules, filters, and forwards only serves to move email around but doesn’t solve the problem that it will always take a [...]

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email the google-killer?

February 23, 2008

Fascinating numbers via Bernard Lunn at RWW about the true market share threat to Google of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger: Email is 49% of Impressions. Portals and Search Engines is 10% by contrast. This is some free data from Nielsen-Netratings. click on Top Site Genres. 56% is Microsoft and Yahoo combined market share of webmail. Gmail [...]

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