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If Google announced that they were supporting the managesieve protocol and/or allowing people to edit sieve filters for their account through a web interface, then I'd be impressed.
This is gonna send shockwaves through the email marketing industry.
I believe it will have an impact on the email marketing industry. I can see lots of marketer getting worried. I think however that it will have the worst impact on companies that use their lists in a way that annoy users. 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…
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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.
I get a lot of stuttering due to Youtube throttling bandwidth usage at the server end. Videos start great, but after that initial buffer is done with, it often inches forward too slowly to keep up with the playback rate. 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.
Almost anything has to be better than using Media Player Classic.
This is a BRILLIANT feature that I hope stimulates somebody on HN to build around Outlook. GMAIL hovers around 5% of email client usage. Outlook still owns somewhere between 35 - 43%. MSFT was moving in this direction and had a decent solution out a few years back called Email Prioritizer. Of course, they tossed before it made it out of labs. Xobni is too complex IMO, what's so compelling about Google's system is how…
And so should all sane companies: Outlook waste their time.
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I believe it will have an impact on the email marketing industry. I can see lots of marketer getting worried. I think however that it will have the worst impact on companies that use their lists in a way that annoy users. 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…
If you annoy people, chances are that you'll end up in their spam filters anyway. This is for the kind of stuff that people leave in their inboxes to read later (or, if they're organized, auto-forward to some "read later" folder).
What I'm saying is that it's not the death of newsletters. This new feature is really useful and its negative impact on permission based marketing can be reduced by ensuring that the content you send out is really appealing to your users. Which is a win-win situation, because more appealing content usually leads to more conversions.
A high open rate may mean that your newsletter ends up in the high priority inbox for a decent percentage of your user-base, despite being a newsletter (unless Google automatically excludes newsletters).
Well, that kills my idea of creating a commercial service based on my fast classifier to do automatic labeling of messages in GMail.
Hopefully this will be available for Google Apps hosted email.
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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.
I'd be surprised if this kind of data wasn't already tracked.
It'd be interesting to what degree using GMail over IMAP v.s. over the GMail web interface affects the heuristics of this new feature.