It had been a few years since I got really excited about a new application or a new service — but I’m happy to report that the drought has ended. Over the past three months, I have come across at least four fantastic applications that made me fall in love with the Internet all over … Continue reading Hey HEY
It is raining outside. I can hear its soft patter outside my window. I like rains. They make me nostalgic, especially on a Sunday, my day for catching up with the week ahead. Past few days have been particularly intense, mostly for personal reasons. I have been preoccupied and thus been playing hide-and-seek from responsibilities such as replying to emails. I decided to change that today.
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Taylor Lorenz has written a wonderful piece on why we should give up trying to tame the email problem. Good point — people send more email if you reply to their email anyway. So to hell with it. Forget about InBox Zero. Don’t think about declaring email bankruptcy. Simply don’t care. Point to note: at … Continue reading Too much email, don’t worry, ignore it, be happy
It is two years to the date when I left the company I started, mostly to scratch my itch to write everyday about things I loved about technology, sometimes boring, sometimes arcane, but mostly important to me. And two years ago, I also stopped writing my weekly email newsletter — 7 Stories to read this … Continue reading Rebooting ‘7 Stories to read this weekend’ Newsletter
Microsoft has launched a new experimental iPhone app called Send and on paper it makes a lot of sense. “Send gives you the simple, quick text message-like experience” according to the company marketing material and is “built specifically for those brief, snappy communications—Send, designed for in-and-out email.” It is not quite the same, but back … Continue reading Microsoft Sends a Message
At the end of the classic war movie, Force 10 from Navarone, as explosions go off in the dam and from the outside, it seems nothing has happened and the attempts to blow it up are futile. And then slowly fissures appear and before you know it the dam is breached. For the past few … Continue reading You’ve Got (No)Mail
We all have done it — received an email, hit reply all and continued a conversation oblivious that we are all essentially creating a kind of spam in everyone’s inbox, reducing people’s productivity and abusing their attention. Problem gets infinitely worse when folks put 50+ people on “CC.” It is 2014, and by now we … Continue reading Reply All
Once a time-saver, the inbox has become a burden. That’s why bold entrepreneurs stand to get rich fixing it, writes Business 2.0 columnist Om Malik. (Business 2.0 Magazine) — E-mail, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! But it wasn’t always so. A lifetime ago, I signed up for CompuServe and received my first exposure … Continue reading Why we hate e-mail
