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The YourMinis Do-It-All Flash Homepage
YourMinis is a Flash-based customizable homepage product
that will compete for users with a number of similar products
that use Ajax - Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google, Live.com and
more. This was launched by a startup called Goowy, which created
a flash-based productivity suite (email, calendar, IM, etc.)
last year.
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Yahoo copies Google, will offer IM within email
Despite the enormous popularity of Google's Gmail, and
the massive filip Gmail received when it launched offering
1Gb of free storage, which doubled to 2Gb and is now nearly
3Gb, Yahoo Mail still has 10 times the users Gmail enjoys.
So why copy Google?
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Harnessing the Power of Email Marketing
Harnessing the Power of Email MarketingI'll keep it as
simple as I can - a PRACTICALTOOL.First, I`d like you to consider
these four facts:*A DIRECT MAIL PIECE costs about 50-cents
in postage alone. (And then you have to factor in paper and
printing costs).*A PHONE CALL can cost just as much - or more
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Firefox 1.5 fixed
A lot of people are still using Firefox 1.5, the Thunderbird
email application and SeaMonkey suite, all of which were recently
found to have critical security holes. However, the problems,
which didn't affect the new Firefox 2, have now been fixed,
says Mozilla.
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Nokia E61 Tom Tom: Get hold of your personal and
professional world
With a Tom Tom Navigator Six, the handset offers a new
meaning to complete mobile solutions. With swift navigation
and a high definition display the handset becomes very user-friendly.Organize
your business with Nokia E61; it has advanced email performance
to share the information with your employees.
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Yahoo! Mail to get integrated IM
Yahoo! Instant Messenger will be built inside of Yahoo!'s
free email service (the largest free email user base which
sits at about 250 million users) so users can chat and see
when contacts are online.
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Help, I'm turning into my wife!
When my wife donated her kidney to me, I received far
more than the life-saving organ I was expecting: along with
it came her character traits, her temperament and some of
her hobbies, too.
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Afternic Gets a Case of the Goodie Two Shoes
Afternic domain name sellers received an email today telling
them that any names they have listed that promote “hate,
sex, obscenity or self-destructive behavior, such as substance
abuse, violence and gambling” will be delisted.Well, that’s
about a quarter of the domain names. LOL!
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50 words to avoid so your email doesn't end up
in the spam folder
Words like 'click' and 'here' don't show up as high, since
they are used often in legitimate email. It also delinerates
that words like madam which is rarely found in legitimate
email, while readily found in spam email, had very high ratios.
Using this method we created a superior list of words found
in spam email.
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Reviewme: Pay Per Post Killer has Arrived!
Just received an email that my blog has been approved
at ReviewMe. So what is ReviewMe? Another get paid to blog
system. Just like my blog is another ramblings blog. LoL.
The email came from Text-link-ads.com, and since I heart this
company, I've signed up right away and just like text-link-ads.com,
the sign up process was a breeze.
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Unsolicited Adsense Spam
Response to an unsolicited email offering questionable
methods to make money from Google Adsense
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'Porn' worm sent to 50,000 after Google blunder
As more web users get onto the Internet through high-speed
broadband connections, viral videos have surged in popularity
for their crazy-fun content, driving traffic to places like
YouTube and Google Video. Apparently Google took the term
"viral video" too literally on Tuesday...emailing the kama
sutra worm to 50,000+ subscribers. Bad kama.
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Spam Me Please!
Anyone who reads downloadsquad has heard of the new service
called "boxbe" that will pay YOU to get spammed. Go to the
site for more info, but in the meantime, for a fun game, enter
my email into any spam field you'd like: abieljaquez@boxbe.com.Seriously.
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Citibank Phishing its Own Customers?
Citibank Australia sent its customers an email explaining
a new online banking sign on procedure, but the email was
mistaken for a phishing attack. The message asked customers
to log on to the Citibank web site and provide their credit
card numbers and ATM PINs for authentication. Wait... I thought
we weren't supposed to do that?
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Ad:Tech - Latest Trends in Email Marketing
Perhaps the most interesting current trend in email marketing
is something that's not happening: companies are not looking
at email holistically, as part of an overall communications
strategy to their customers. Multiple departments in a company
may well be sending email to a given customer, but there's
no one managing the communications from a cus
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Social Security Administration Cries Wolf Over
Phishing Scam
They don't even know it's called phishing and they think
they're going to CATCH them?. And the are SHOCKED that someone
would send bogus emails. Wow, can you imagine such a thing?
I bet the phishers are quaking in their boots that SSA is
going to come and get em.
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Google recruiting from forums?
Forum members recevied recruiting emails from Google via
their forum profiles. Seems unlikely that google would use
this as a legitimate recruiting method. One member verifies
that it is for real.
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Get paid to read spam?
Boxbe1, an email service that charges marketers to email
its users, launched this week. If someone emails your Boxbe1
address, they are given the option of paying a fee (mine is
set at 10 cents, of which I receive 75 percent) or completing
a test to prove you’re a human (a captcha). So basically,
the fee will only come into play for mass marketing
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Get paid for recieving email with Boxbe
"Users simply sign up and use the email to sign up for
"junk" emails like contests, forms, newsletters, etc. When
companies try to contact you, Boxbe contacts them and gives
them the option of paying a fee to deliver the email to your
Boxbe account. Both Boxbe and the email user will share the
profit. "With Boxbe, you set a price to be contacted"
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Outlook takes 136 years to sync email
Microsoft has again found itself at the heart of a time-related
SNAFU. While syncing outlook to our corporate email system
I was rather shocked to see the "status" window informing
be there was 1193046 hours remaining for the sync to complete.
Thats, erm, 136 years (give or take a few days). Is this a
record?
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Best Buy Gift Card Giveaway
This site is giving away a couple of Best Buy gift cards
today.In recognition of Veterans Day, one of the cards will
go to the first person to respond with a .mil email address.
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Overcharged antiquated web-hosting - at your disservice
These idiots actually end each email with "The Best Web
Hosting...Ever!", whilst they don't carry out the services
they advertise, their systems are antiquated, and they charge
you 5 times as much as other hosting outfits (for the services
they don't do). Never use Afrihost...
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20 Smart Companies to Start Now
This article even lists the email addresses of the guys
who want to fund the start-up (guys like the co-founder of
PayPal).
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