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Yahoo Mail Going Social

March 20, 2023 By J. Angelo Racoma 1 Comment

Yahoo reports that its mail service is turning social, particularly with an end-goal of unifying Yahoo and third-party social media services into one place.

A “smarter inbox” puts messages from friends or family in a separate, tabbed file so they don’t get buried under mountains of spam or work email.

The inbox for the the first time lets people install third-party applications such as movie-recommendation service Flixster and blogging tools from WordPress.

Technology from startup Xoopit (pronounced swoop-it) will fetch all pictures buried in stored emails, even retrieving images from website links found in messages.

Earlier this year, Yahoo opened up its email service to let third-party developers create add-on applications to the service, much like how one could launch applications on social networking site FaceBook. This move is meant to add value to email, which is considered among the top applications that people use the Internet for.

Ideally, this should make things easier to manage. But the concern here is that having yet another social media profile to maintain might make it more cumbersome for users. The idea of consolidating all of a user’s online presences (blogs, social networks, photos, lifestreams, etc.) under one site–or portal, which Yahoo! is–is an attractive proposition, though. But this might be difficult to achieve, given the different standards among different social networks.

Originally posted on December 16, 2008 @ 1:59 pm

Filed Under: Yahoo Tagged With: Email, social, Yahoo

Score One for the Bad Guys

March 10, 2023 By Andrew G. R. 1 Comment

Squiggly letters and jagged numbers might have already overstayed their welcome on the Web.  These annoying yet necessary human verification tests, which attempt to keep our personal information safe and blogs free of junk, have been defeated.

According to Websense, the security firm that has identified the hacking, warns that a computer was able to beat the system and proceed to create multiple Hotmail accounts in order to disseminate spam.

Similar attacks have recently occurred against Microsoft’s Live Mail accounts and Google’s Gmail and Blogger services.

Ferris Research, an analyst firm specializing in messaging and collaboration, estimates that spam (and preventative measures) cost the U.S. economy $42 billion annually.

Computers are looking more and more human everyday.  Beware.

Read more at the Houston Chronicle.

Originally posted on May 3, 2008 @ 3:37 pm

Filed Under: Email, Spam Tagged With: Email, gmail, hacked, hotmail, human verification, Spam

Google Cuts Prices on Extra Gmail and Picasa Storage

January 2, 2023 By Mike Abundo

GmailWhen Gmail introduced free multigigabyte mailboxes for the masses, a lot of us suddenly got spoiled about storing years of email with enormous attachments, without deletion. Five years later, power Gmail users find themselves approaching their free storage limit.

If you’re one of those users, fear not. Google has slashed prices on extra storage for Gmail and Picasa. Now you can get 20 gigabytes for five dollars a year. If you need even more than that — say, if you send and receive dozens of enormous files via email every day, or if you store millions of high-resolution raw photos online — packages scale all the way up to an amazing 16 terabytes for $4,096 annually. Cloud storage pack rats rejoice!

Originally posted on November 11, 2009 @ 7:05 am

Filed Under: Email, Google Tagged With: Email, gmail, Google, picasa

Hitler on Hotmail Scam

December 30, 2022 By Mike Abundo

New media news meets new media memetics as Hitler is informed that his Hotmail password has been leaked.

Anyone who underestimates the social value of Net savvy should learn something from this video: the social consequences of making bad online media recommendations. I wouldn’t want to be Fegelein right now.

Originally posted on October 10, 2009 @ 6:38 am

Filed Under: Email, Mashups, Microsoft Tagged With: Email, Hitler, hotmail, Mashups, Microsoft

Bank Sends Info to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google

December 30, 2022 By Mike Abundo

Rocky Mountain BankA word of advice if you have an account with Rocky Mountain Bank in Wyoming: get your money out of there. Not only will they be careless enough to mishandle your sensitive information, they’ll be stupid enough to sue a third party for their own mistake.

A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data.

According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of the Rocky Mountain Bank asked a bank employee to send certain loan statements to a representative of the customer. The employee, however, inadvertently sent the e-mail to the wrong Gmail address. Additionally, the employee had attached a sensitive file to the e-mail that should not have been sent at all.

As if that weren’t bad enough, they’ll be deceptive enough to try and cover up the whole mess. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 22, 2009 @ 7:27 am

Filed Under: Email, Google Tagged With: Email, Google, Rocky Mountain Bank

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