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Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

and to think people were starting to assume that email is dead.

Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. That’s why the social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.

source: bits.blogs.nytimes.com | posted on: November 14th, 2007 11:11:13 AM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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jGuru: How do I use JavaMail API to send multipart/alternative mails? I want to send an html-mail, but if the recipiant dont know how to parse them, they will see a text/plain version.

Hey bud - we need to ensure that the SiphsMail's being generated can be displayed in TEXT or HTML format depending on the end client. For example, if the email goes out to someone with the Blackberry, then the email won't render properly. Anyway, we have to add it to the to-do list.

source: www.jguru.com | posted on: November 6th, 2007 09:11:30 AM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? - WSJ.com

the state of things to come on social networking vs. email. The statistics below are great for us - there are more email users and the social network users, and email providers are working to make their email service more social. Email is not dead, and our email-this button should be the entry point into the **new** social email.

"I have very little doubt that email will be sexy again in a way that people will say, 'Holy Smokes, I didn't see this coming,'" says Yahoo Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse. He cites research from July indicating that only 20 of Yahoo email users are MySpace users and just 10 are on Facebook.

source: online.wsj.com | posted on: October 18th, 2007 08:10:14 AM MST | posted: 1 time(s)

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