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A social snapshot
Put another way: one in every four-and-a-half minutes spent on the Web is spent on a social networking site or blog. And last year the average visitor spent 66 percent more time on such sites than in 2009, when early adopters were already feeling digitally fatigued.
“I’m on tech overload,” said Ms. Lawrence, who has Facebook and LinkedIn accounts yet barely uses them anymore. “I already feel like I’m experiencing slow death by e-mail.” While she loves technology and has been experimenting with Google+ since it was introduced, “I’m having a really hard time justifying adding yet another social tool to my tool `kit,” she said.
… Continue reading: Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout – NYTimes.com
You will be instrumented… (via ACM TechNews)
Once courteous.ly has access to a Gmail account, it periodically checks the user’s email load based on specific measurement parameters chosen by the user – unread messages in your inbox, total number of messages in your inbox, or how much mail you’ve recently sent. After an initial 12-hour analysis, courteous.ly determines the user’s email habits and what constitutes“light,” “normal” or “high” e-mail amount. It then updates the user’s status of email volume level every 10 minutes, which is reflected in an individualized courteous.ly link.
The primary way to distribute a courteous.ly link is through the user’s email signature. To see how busy a user is,… Continue reading: GT | Newsroom – Taking Email Etiquette to the Next Level
Expect more stringent email policies in many organizations’ near-term futures
"If all White House officials were following rules prohibiting the use of personal email for official business, there would simply be no sensitive information to find," said Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and a frequent thorn in the Obama administration’s side. "Unfortunately, we know that not everyone at the White House follows those rules and that creates an unnecessary risk."
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, said the hacking "suggests China believes government officials are using their personal accounts for official business, because I doubt they… Continue reading: Gmail Hack Targeted White House – WSJ.com
This time it’s personal
The security specialists say these efforts are a far cry from more standard phishing attempts, which involve spraying the Internet with millions of e-mails that appear to be from, say, Citibank in the hope of snaring a few unfortunate Citibank customers. Spear phishing entails sending highly targeted pitches that can look authentic because they appear to come from a trusted source and contain plausible messages.
As such, the specialists say, the overtures are becoming very difficult for recipients to detect.
Spear Phishing Uses Friendly Faces to Spread E-Mail Fraud – NYTimes.com
Continue reading: Spear Phishing Uses Friendly Faces to Spread E-Mail Fraud – NYTimes.com
Seems dubious to me, including the assertion about 3B Gmail accounts (unless Gmail added ~2.8B user accounts since January)
A new service, GiveBackMail, introduced this week, promises to give 25 percent of its profit to charity if users will route their e-mail activities through its Web site. “The more you use e-mail, the more money you direct toward your charity,” said Rambod Yadegar, who founded the service with his brother, Sam.
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“They have such a significant user base,” he said, noting that Google has three billion Gmail accounts, while Yahoo and Microsoft have around 250 million e-mail accounts each. “We can have a significant impact in the nonprofit… Continue reading: Giving to Charity by Managing Your E-Mail – NYTimes.com
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