Archive for the ‘IMHO’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I just got off an ESPC call where Cloudmark was presenting. Very cool stuff. Learned they protect over 600 million inboxes around the globe via just about all the major ISPs.
Anyway, the guy from Cloudmark said he knew he'd be on a call with a bunch of email service providers ...
Posted in IMHO, Spam Topics | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Just came across Hal Riney & Partners' new website, which lets you navigate around by waving your arms in front of your screen (kind of like that computer interface on Minority Report). It uses your computer's webcam to track your arm gestures. I thought it was fascinating, then got ...
Posted in Emarketing, Business, IMHO | 4 Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Have you ever wished you could quickly and easily setup different email addresses whenever you signup at some new website?
For example, we review every single new account at MailChimp. Occasionally, we'll come across a techie who created an email address like, "mailchimp-techie@example.com" I guess it's a way to filter all ...
Posted in IMHO, Tips, Tricks, Best Practices | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but their CEO wants us to know something's going on.
Congratulations, guys (I think?).
Update via Box of Meat: Ken Magill has some insight here
Posted in Emarketing, Business, IMHO | No Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Interesting plugin for Mozilla's Thunderbird:
http://simile.mit.edu/seek/
Posted in IMHO | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
There's an interesting post over at the Word To The Wise blog about the "Report Spam" button.
Apparently, some marketing folks (Q Interactive and MarketingSherpa) ran a survey that suggests the button is meaningless now. That's because too many people click "Report Spam" when all they really want to do ...
Posted in Abuse Desk Stories, Emarketing, Business, IMHO, Spam Topics | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Just stumbled upon this discussion over at Slashdot:
"In a split (4-3) decision, a Virginia court has upheld the verdict against the spam king making it clear that spam is not protected by the U.S. Constitution's first amendment or even its interstate commerce clause."
My first thought was: 4 to 3?!?!? Who ...
Posted in IMHO, Spam Topics | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Being in the email marketing business, I notice weird stuff. Like email footers. When I get a new email newsletter, I like to scroll all the way down to the bottom, and see how they write their footer. I look for interesting ways people include unsub links, or mailing addresses, ...
Posted in Email Design, IMHO | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Spamology is an interesting data visualization project, where the artist uses keyword frequency from spam to form a little miniature city. The more frequent the keywords, the higher and higher they stack. Before you go looking for the "Viagra" skyscraper and the "Rolex" tower, it's common words (like "with") that ...
Posted in IMHO, Spam Topics | No Comments »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
It's Friday, so I'm posting some stuff that makes me go, "hmm."
Below is a diagram of email conversations within a company, immediately after an important project missed a deadline.
The color nodes represent people. Clusters of nodes represent people reporting to important people (the proverbial you-know-what "hitting the fan"). The company ...
Posted in Emarketing, Business, IMHO | 1 Comment »
