It's often interesting to learn about a product or service's users - particularly when you are one. Maybe you'll find that your stylish small car is popular with old ladies, for example. Or that your taste in TV shows mirrors that of eight-year-old boys. Anyway, Rapleaf recently took a look at this concept as it applies to email.
Microsoft and MySpace announced that Windows Live will now begin broadcasting MySpace user activity streams to the Windows Live Platform via MySpaceID. What this means is that users of Windows Live, Windows Live Messenger, and Hotmail, who are also MySpace users, will be able to see their friends':
Gmail has reportedly become the third largest web-based email service in the United States. According to data from comScore, Gmail has surpassed AOL's email service.
This data shows that in July Gmail had 37 million unique visitors, while AOL had 36.4 million. If this data is accurate, and Gmail continues to grow, that just leaves Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail left for it to tackle.
Microsoft announced today that Bing has been added to Windows Live Hotmail's quick add feature, which itself was announced back in February. This means Hotmail users can easily search Bing for items to insert into email messages.
Users can each for maps, restaurants, movie times, images, videos and business listings from their inboxes. They can also preview and insert videos and images from the web.
Gmail will now let you import email and contacts from other email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL (and a bunch more. Full list at the bottom of the article). This means that if you have an old account that you'd like to merge into your Gmail account, you can do so.
It also means (and this is what Google is pushing for) that users of other services can easily start new Gmail accounts without abandoning everything they have built up with another provider. Google is making the switch more enticing.
Google has announced four changes to Gmail's contact manager. Each change is a feature to enhance the service's usability.
Gmail is growing rapidly. Yahoo has long dominated the race against Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail, but Gmail is on pace to overthrow the other two. I got in touch with Yahoo Mail's VP John Kremer to try and find out some expectations Yahoo has for Yahoo Mail.
Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail or just Hotmail to most, has seen a number of improvements in recent memory. Most notably it got an updated look, and they made everything faster.
Now they are rolling out a number of new features, which if users aren't seeing yet, they will be very soon. New features include:
The Windows Hotmail Team has been responding to users feedback on the recent updates to Windows Live Hotmail.The Hotmail Team says it has fixed problems surrounding using larger text size in the browser, viewing favorite contacts and accessing Hotmail from Firefox on Linux.The next update to Hotmail is scheduled for mid-December and will focus on how scrolling works.
I’ll admit it. I’ve put off purposefully joining Open ID for no real reason. But now, whether we want to or not, you and I (well, I’m guessing you are, anyway) are being jumped in to the world of Open ID. Because not only are Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail (aka Hotmail) joining the Open ID ranks, allowing their logins to become Open ID logins, but so is Gmail.
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