Its been interesting to read reactions around the blogosphere on facebook’s announcement of their adding usernames and the inevitable land grab that will begin tomorrow night when the system goes live. Chris Messina thinks its all about facebook trying to own your digital identity, and he has an interesting post along those lines over on [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, facebook, Social Media, twitter | Tags: facebook twitter socialmedia email | 1 Comment »
The data is now starting to trickle in. Here, is a recent Neilson study, for example, that shows that email is starting to slip behind social networks in terms of “active reach”. Here’s the key exhibit: I can’t say I’m terribly surprised. The sad fact of the matter is that the companies that lead the [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, Social Media | Tags: changing times | No Comments »
Given the recent twirtermania sweeping the nation, I couldn’t help but take A close at the transmission mechanisms built into facebook, MySpace, twitter and some other new communications systems. The whole process has been very interesting and it has really illustrated to me just how big and profound twitter is as a system for collecting, [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, Social Media | Tags: email, SocialMedia, twitter | 1 Comment »
We are about to start building some software over here, so it was great timing when a friend recently forwarded me this great post about consumer oriented software development. Its a very thoughtful and thorough post. If you don’t have the time to read it all (it’s so long that it actually has a bibliography!), [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | Tags: Customer, email, Software Design | No Comments »
Email has reentered the blogosphere in a big way over the last 6 months or so. There are so many posts now that it’s impossible to keep track of them all. Dave McClure posted another entry in his recent series on email a few days ago. In his wild-man style, he covers everything from open [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | 1 Comment »
My friend John pointed me towards this story about the apple design process from Tech Beat. It was presented at SXSW a few weeks ago by Michael Lopp, a senior engineering manager at Apple. He has a blog of his own, which looks to be full of interesting observations on how technology is changing the [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | No Comments »
I have been out pitching a new email oriented startup. As I’ve listened to smart people react to the idea, I’ve heard at least five different endings to the sentence “The future of email is _____”. The most frequent ones are: Social Networks SMS IM Mobile Video chat There are other less plausible ones too [...]
Posted: April 2nd, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Advertising, email | 2 Comments »
Apparently Microsoft is close to acquiring Xobni. At Least that’s what TechCrunch thinks. It always seemed like a feature to me, so I guess I can’t say I’m surprised particularly given that: It adds some useful productivity functionality. Microsoft added anything innovative in years. It was already implemented as an outlook plug in. Hopefully Xobni [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | No Comments »
So here we are then. I am rob, and I am starting work on a new company. This blog is a companion to that endeavor. The business idea in a sentence is to add back all of the innovation that has been missing over the last ten years in consumer webmail and make the product [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | 1 Comment »
Hi, You just clicked a link in my email signature. As you probably noticed, its a bunch of links to public content relating to me around the web. It’s got my blog, twitter status, images, resume and facebook page. What did you think of it? Was it helpful? Annoying? Did it come through looking okay? [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | No Comments »
