A couple of other options for email users looking to kill off spam, viruses etc. Walla.com (thanks, Rob) is a free, 1 gigabyte thing with a very simple sign-up process. Nevada-based Komodo (love the name, love the lizard) said yesterday (PDF file) its “unique email services are being tested internally starting this week”. This is… Read More »
I get a the growing feeling that we bloggers are being targeted more than we were by PR folk. Sure, there’s the Warner/Secret Machines/MP3 blog debacle, where a Warner employee used some hamfisted tactics to get some bloggers to write about a Warner act. But there are other tactics too, and some are more impressive… Read More »
Further to my ZeroDegrees debacle, in which I succeeded in spamming 2,000 people in my contact book with barely a click, here’s a response from ZeroDegrees‘ Jas Dhillon, CEO and president of the company, and Mark Jeffrey, VP of Product, to my questions. I’ve edited a little for length. How is it that even experienced… Read More »
Could spam and viruses kill off email? Folk seem to think so, if a world-wide survey by Message Labs, the email security people, is anything to go by (no URL available yet, sorry). They found that 6 out of 10 companies would give up email if the threat posed by viruses, spam and other malware… Read More »
Email marketers can now peer into your inbox to see whether their emails are getting through. ExactTarget, an Indianopolis-based company that “delivers on-demand email software solutions for permission- based email marketing” to companies like The Home Depot, General Mills, Scotts and Bristol-Myers Squibb is now offering a service that peers into users’ inboxes at their… Read More »