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This is tangential, but needs to be stated: What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death. There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
In a dream world Microsoft & Apple could partner together on this and create a better set of standards...
> For others, it might mean one original article blurred out in a newsletter. (Inside’s newsletter CMS is built to handle toggling between paid-for and free content.) Anyone know of an open source or paid Newsletter Management CMS? I'm working on a content site like inside, for a very small sports niche, and am thinking of making it a daily newsletter with paid subscriptions, instead of a regular website driven by Wo…
We just added a secret new feature: inside.com/alerts, which allows us to send news to people by SMS if they can't wait for the emails.
In terms of paid newsletters, there will be 2-3 in each of 1,000 vertical with over $100-250,000 in revenue each based on what I can see.
Email is like the one and only vendor/device/programming language independent way of communication.
e-mail seems to be dying fast. I have several friends (all under 30) who are only reachable via facebook or SMS; e-mail is an afterthought.
e-mail seems to be dying fast. I have several friends (all under 30) who are only reachable via facebook or SMS; e-mail is an afterthought.
A shameless plug, but if you like HN and email, my side-project, http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ , might be worth a look. Rolling past 50k subscribers this month.
My fear is that I have a different taste than you. How do you curate it?
Email is like the one and only vendor/device/programming language independent way of communication.
(To be honest, the only thing I really like about slack over IRC is history. I wonder if that couldn't be processed in a more peer-to-peer manner over IRC?)