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However, this sounds like a "reverse bayesian spam filter" that instead of filtering out spam is filtering out "most important email" and learning over time ?
It shouldn't be too hard adjusting SpamBayes or similar filters to do this, should it ? Anyone know about any solution for Outlook ?
This sort of feature always makes me sad that they announce features before rolling them out to everyone. Now I can't wait for it to show up in my account.
I can't agree more. I was really disappointed when found out that I need to wait for release. Most likely I'll forgot unless it will appear on top of HN next week.
That promotional video is exceptionally well-executed.
Wish I could watch it. Am I the only one who can't stream a full video from YouTube half the time? Either it doesn't start at all, or quits streaming half way through.
When this happens, and I really want to watch the video, I use FlashGot in Firefox to download the FLV directly and play it back in Media Player Classic.
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I think he meant the "psychological profile" data, not his email text.
Without knowing anything detailed about how all this is implemented, it looks to be derived from nothing more than is stored in your inbox: The text of the emails, and whether they are read and replied to. As such it seems like strictly less information than you are requesting that they store.
#28 of YC's Ideas They'd Like to Fund "Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader. Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it."
Yeah, I was trying to solve that as well with my startup... Priority Inbox definitely implements a few of our "killer features". Will be interesting to see if we can compete with Google on this :)
This is gonna send shockwaves through the email marketing industry.
If you simply offer a useful service (and I believe I do with the recently launched http://anynewbooks.com) I don't think you are going to be terribly impacted. People will always open emails that they find valuable whether they are newsletters or not.
If all you offer is low quality bacn though, you're going to hate this new Gmail feature.
Having tested this the last few days, I would raise a rebel army if Google tried to take it away.
Gmail is starting to remind me more and more why I like free software so much: I want the ability to hack it to do what I want. The feature I'm desperate for is to have it use specific email addresses with specific people: dedasys.com for most correspondence, gmail with family, maybe hecl.org for that mailing list, and so on. Sure you can change it manually, but it's a pain in the neck. The reason I don't run my own…
Ironic considering Eric Schmidt disputed the existence of communication overload fairly recently. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/eric-schmidt-mobile-is-the-...
This will make me very, very happy. It matches almost exactly with my workflow for using email: certain people (customers) get written back as soon as I check email, other people get responses as time permits, and then I get some notifications which I don't typically act on but do appreciate having surfaced somewhere (e.g. "You sold something" or "Here's your receipt.").
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Without knowing anything detailed about how all this is implemented, it looks to be derived from nothing more than is stored in your inbox: The text of the emails, and whether they are read and replied to. As such it seems like strictly less information than you are requesting that they store.
In the presentation they say that it's partially based on what E-Mails you read. So they're tracking more than just the information in your inbox, they're also considering how you use your inbox through the GMail web interface.