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leaks
Salma Hayek's Hacked Emails Reveal Celebrity's Quotidian Existence
Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!) More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Richard Lawson: U wouldnt hack Obamas emales would u? 9 Responses | Other threads
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Mark Zuckerberg's Status Update: Paranoid as Hell
Is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hunting leakers? His internal memo about CFO Gideon Yu's departure got forwarded to bloggers. Perhaps he was hoping that would happen, and not just so his spin would get out. More »
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meltdowns
Washington Mutual's last spam to customers
As someone who's designed and deployed plenty of email marketing campaigns, I have to feel for the poor sods who sent this electronic come-on to Washington Mutual customers today, as news broke that the Seattle-based bank's failure is the largest in our nation's history. More » -
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Yahoo dominates Sarah Palin's email contact list
Sometimes I hear people ask: "Who uses Yahoo Mail anymore?" The answer, of course, is just about everybody. ComScore puts the number at around 260 million people — far more than Google's 90 million. But statistics can feel abstract. Now that a 4chan reprobate has hacked into Alaska governor and "average hockey mom" Sarah Palin's private Yahoo email account and discovered, among other things, her contact list, we have a more concrete demonstration of Yahoo's dominance of Palin's decidedly down-home demographic. Here is a list contains six Yahoo addresses, an AOL address, a Hotmail address and exactly zero Gmail addresses. More »
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Comment by Migrant Blogger: Surprised to see a few people using AOL and Hotmail. It's like I'm back in college again. more » | Other threads
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Sarah Palin's Personal Emails
Did the internet just cause Sarah Palin to destroy evidence? The potential Veep is in a bit of trouble for conducting state business using her personal, unarchived email address (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) instead of her official account (which is, of course, subject to laws requiring the retention of government records). Emails from that Yahoo account are already being sought in connection with the Troopergate investigation. Now comes word that Anonymous, the fun-loving Internet trouble-makers based loosely around the message board 4Chan, gained access to another Palin email account: gov.palin@yahoo.com. It looks legit! The offending posts, screenshots, heretofore unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan. But we have them. You want to read Sarah Palin's email?
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By PareeneComment by American Dreamer: Newsweek just broke a story that conservatives are now pushing the idea of moving Palin from the Vice Presidency to... 26 Responses | Other threads
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stats
Half of Internet users didn't Google yesterday
The latest study from the grinds at Pew Internet Research touts the rise in daily search users to 49 percent. That means of all Internet users, only half use search daily. The killer app? It's Twitter! No, it's still email, used by 60 percent daily. -
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Jason Nation leads to resignation
Fun-loving millionaire Jason Calacanis (right) is not joking: He's quit blogging. In a quickie phone call, Calacanis told Valleywag that he felt blogging was taking too much time away from both his work and his family, because of the blogosphere's always-on, why-haven't-you-replied-it's-been-5-minutes nature. Instead, Calacanis is posting his thoughts and observations to an old-school mailing list. He says the list has gathered 500 subscribers since its launch last week. Don't worry, you haven't seen the last of blogging's fair-haired boy. I just subscribed tips@vallewyag.com to the list, and I give it a week at max before someone sets up an automatic system that reposts every one of Calacanis's emails — to a blog. (Photo courtesy of Jason Calacanis)
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By Paul BoutinComment by G2GdoB2B: Regarding Mahalo, Calacanis said in this interview [www.internetevolution.com] that the biggest challenge was creating and updating pages in Mahalo. Maybe... more » | Other threads
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leakers
Leakers Rejoice: (Some Of) Your Employers Can't Read Your Emails
A California appeals court ruled yesterday that your job has no right to obtain your work emails or text messages if they are stored by a third party provider. That means that the roughly 30% of Microsoft Outlook users whose emails are handled by a vendor, for example, would be protected from having their employers snoop on them. If your job stores employee emails internally, they can still read them. Regardless, this is good news for leakers in this age of corporate snooping on your Facebook pages. Who do you have to thank for this newfound privacy? A cop who sent sexy text messages from his work phone!: More »
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Comment by KMorgan: @fivehole: he's getting an Arch Wireless account offered by the Republican Party with a special discount under the "pedophillic party"... more » | Other threads
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Don't Mess With the Media Bloggers Association
The Associated Press wants us bloggers to purchase a license from them for permission to quote 5 words from their stories. Ok guys, good luck with that. Recently they threatened some D-list bloggers in order to put the fear of god into everyone, but it backfired, naturally. So they're trying the good cop approach—they will not sue bloggers, they promise, and they will meet with some blogger advocacy group to hammer out an agreement. These new guidelines will be drawn up in consultation with something called the Media Bloggers Association, a.k.a. The Justice Blogiety of America, a.k.a. the Congress of Blogustrial Organizations. It's a powerless group of funny-looking nerds with no ties to mainstream "blogging" as we know it. Amusingly, after Night Editor Ryan Tate made fun of them last night, they sent him a wounded email asking why he didn't call them for comment first. OMG guys, you represent bloggers? Don't you know we never pick up phones? That email is attached, and more fun with the M.B.A. is below.
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Cisco never going to give you up, never going to let you down
I've always suspected vast swaths of Cisco, the boringly profitable networking giant, were stuck in the '90s. An exchange forwarded from an internal mailing list confirms it. First of all: forwarded from an internal mailing list. Haven't these people heard of wikis? Second of all: They're complaining about files being deleted from an internal FTP server. Hello, isn't storage supposed to be in the cloud? The email chain ends with equally dated complaints about misuse of the "reply all" button. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lena.: Passive aggression at its finest. Perhaps even more amusing than the rickroll are the 3 articles about reply all... more » | Other threads
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leaks
Is Your Company Spying On You Right Now?
File this under "Confirmation of scary news that you already suspected was true": a new survey says that corporations have become so paranoid about leaks (justifiably) that many are now engaged in "systematic snooping" in employees' electronic communications. More than 40% of large companies read employee emails, but that's not all; they're also looking at your instant messages and Facebook pages. Delete! Delete! More »
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Comment by toastycakes: What happened to the good ol' days of dealing with this by tucking a twenty into your thong and letting... more » | Other threads
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clips
Larry Page: Microsoft's "history of doing bad stuff" makes Yahoo merger risky
Taking questions after a speech before the New America Foundation, Google cofounder Larry Page told the crowd the reason Microsoft and Yahoo shouldn't merge is that it would give Microsoft too much control over email and instant messaging. "90 percent of the communications all in one company, I think that's a really big risk." We totally agree! So when will Google open its search results pages to third-party advertisements?
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Comment by Shadowlayer: Google is no longer the small company it used to be, so the whole "MS is big and BAD" excuse... more » | Other threads
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politics
White House used Microsoft software to flout email-archiving law
At last, an explanation of the Bush Administration's misbehavior that will resonate in Silicon Valley: It's all Microsoft's fault. Ars Technica details how switching from an IBM Lotus email system installed under Clinton to a Microsoft Exchange server made it impossible to store White House emails systematically. The archiving system was operated manually, and Bush appointees nixed efforts to upgrade it. CIO Theresa Payton says that the White House is now working on a new system, but knowing the ways of both Washington and enterprise software, what are the chances it will be done before we have a new president?
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By Owen ThomasComment by CaliforniaCajun: Why am I not surprised the mainstream press has said *nothing* about this? more » | Other threads
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Email startup tries to hurry Microsoft-Yahoo merger
Former Yahoo executive Jeff Bonforte, now CEO of Xobni, has come up with possibly the most cynical yet useful product ever launched by a startup. Xobni, whose software tracks and analyzes email usage in Outlook, is rumored to be in acquisition talks with Microsoft. Microsoft is, to its dismay, not in acquisition talks with Yahoo. But Xobni's latest product, TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld reports, bridges Microsoft Outlook, desktop email software widely used in corporations, with Yahoo's Web-based email. "That's the kind of demo that gets deals done," Schonfeld observes. Indeed, it may make Microsoft wonder whether they need to buy Yahoo at all.
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By Owen ThomasComment by matto: Names like "Jeff Bonafarte" are why I began my career as a blog commenter. more » | Other threads
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google
Microsoft to reporters: Stop blathering about a webmail monopoly
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger would give Microsoft control of more than 90 percent of email and instant messaging traffic worldwide. But when a reporter from AdAge asked Microsoft VP Yusuf Mehdi about it, he shushed her. "The core of the combination is around search and advertising," Mehdi said, "The other allegations are not there and not the focus of what we should be talking about in this combination." We'll ignore that advice, but agree with the sentiment. Last we checked, email use was in decline relative to other forms of online communication, such as social network messaging. (Photo by richard winchell)
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Comment by ryancath: Is this why gmail is suddenly blocked on hotmail. I am losing my mind! FOr the past two days I... more » | Other threads
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cubicle culture
Your inability to shut up costs us $650 billion
Business research firm Basex reports that "unnecessary interruptions" will cost businesses $650 billion next year. Excuse me. My boss is IMing me with a YouTube video I apparently need to watch. Where was I? Basex analyst Jonathan Spira gave Bits a pledge for all of us to take, so we can avoid being part of the problem. What? Not now, Jordan, I'm posting! More »
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Comment by GiovannaDuge: Solving the $650bn problem requires a new, high-level workplace tool - a Human Interaction Management System (HIMS), that understands human... more » | Other threads
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email
Thrillist expands to Las Vegas
Founder Ben Lerer tells us Thrillist will announce a Las Vegas version of its email guide to restaurants, bars and culture tomorrow. 'Cause you were so worried you'd find nothing to do on your next Sin City business trip, right? Mock the idea if you like (and we do), but you've got to admire former AOL Time Warner COO Bob Pittman's choice in Web investments. Thrillist does nothing but grow. Subscribers are up 500 percent to nearly 300,000 so far this year. More » -
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In the wake of its Beacon fiasco, Facebook has launched a new blogger appeasement campaign — starting with TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington. His early Christmas gift? Facebook notifications now carry the entire text of messages sent via the social network. Arrington says this will have a "big impact." Yes, in the sense that it might get him to shut up about Facebook's privacy violations. [TechCrunch]
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By Owen ThomasComment by macbeach: Now if they were REALLY smart (I'm skeptical) they'd allow replies to such messages to find their way back to... more » | Other threads
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when google attacks
Is Google Now Too Big To Handle Anything?
Google, the world's most wonderful or evil company, has greylisted popular web host company Dreamhost, even while it claims that levels of spam are dropping overall. (Dreamhost is a ten-year-old company that hosts more than half a million websites on more than 1500 servers.) The greylist (which means that mail sent through Dreamhost to Gmail is delayed by hours or days while it is assessed for mass-spamming) was imposed more than two weeks ago by Gmail; it was triggered because so many Dreamhost users forward their mail to Gmail, which made Dreamhost look like a spammer. Dreamhost announced the problem on November 17, and has talked with Google support, and yet it's still not resolved. This seems like evidence that Google's infrastructure has major trouble—how is it possible that it takes more than two weeks to remove a legitimate source of mail from a greylist?
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By ChoireComment by suboptimal: @Alleygal: I'm a dreamhost user. Their spam filtering works pretty well for me (they use SpamAssassin). Also, you can set... more » | Other threads
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google
What if Microsoft designed Gmail?
Phillip Lessen at Blogoscoped plays that fun game where you take a nice product and trash it up by imagining it the hands of Microsoft. Microsoft itself did this a couple years ago with the iPod. But today, Lessen turned the nasty lights on Gmail. Survey the damage after the jump. More »
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Comment by tillman: Isn't there a reason why Gmail has 15 mm UV in Oct vs. Windows Live hotmail's 47 mm? more » | Other threads
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gmail
Go check your Gmail secondary email now, or some day you'll be locked out of your email for five days
That's what's happening to me. Maybe someone figured out my password, or maybe it's a technical glitch, but my Google password has been changed. I joined Gmail in college, so I used a school address as my secondary address. Years later, I finally need that password-reset email but the address is long dead. And Google's policy is to make me WAIT FIVE DAYS while someone could be wreaking havoc on my life before I can answer my security question and get my email back. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by frogman31680: You know, I had the same problem for about 3 months now. I've talked with GMAIL support numerous times.... more » | Other threads
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the chart
Who's got the biggest social network?
In response to word that Yahoo and Google want to use their email services to compete with social networks, Fred Wilson tried to compare the "social graphs" of popular Web email services against popular social networks, but he couldn't get it all on one chart. Here's our chart, courtesy of ComScore. It shows the outlook for Google and Yahoo is good, if they manage to turn their email user base into a workable social graph, whatever that means. More »
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Comment by funny: I really think this is just the email companies saying we're worth something too! Not that they truly believe that... more » | Other threads
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bad ideas
Google and Yahoo's Facebook killer is email
You've seen the chart: Web email isn't necessarily going away, but social network messaging is on the rise. In the U.K., it's already as popular as email. So what's Yahoo's plan to compete with Facebook and other social networks? Email, of course. Seems that's Google's plan too, according to what both companies told Bits. The idea is that the connection between you and those in your address books and inboxes are just as much a part of your social graph as the people you "friend" on Facebook. But I'm skeptical. Who wants a friend request from Mr. George Annah of Senegal or opheliasbmv4 and other "chicks in your area" who "needu some luvin today" ?
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Comment by migukin: This is something I have thought for some time now --it's not email it's the ADDRESS BOOK where all the... more » | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Don't expect your emails to be private
You know your privacy is an illusion — especially if you're a Facebook member — but maybe you need a reminder? Leave it to Mark Rasch, the former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit . In a recent editorial for the Telegraph he makes it clear: Want to buy some pot from your friend? Don't seal the deal over email. More » -
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The decline and fall of email
When Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, we told you the real losers were AOL and Yahoo, because they depend on email usage to drive traffic through their portals. Email is dying as a form of communication, we said, but some smartass commenter didn't believe us. He wanted to see some numbers. Fine. Here are some numbers from Hitwise. More »
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Gmail may be introducing larger mailboxes. Of course, Google's 10 GB seems paltry compared to Yahoo and AOL's new unlimited-email storage. [Infectious Greed]
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By Owen ThomasComment by rohitj: there is rss support in gmail. i use it daily. more » | Other threads
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complaints
Gmail Disables User Accounts Without Reason Or Warning
UPDATE: Gmail says they accidentally disabled a huge swatch of user accounts in an attempt to fight a large spammer network, and is actively reinstating these accounts. [Consumerist]
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By Ben PopkenComment by Matthew: I thought the whole idea of Gmail was that bots read your mail so you get targeted advertisements alongside it.... more » | Other threads
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lycos
Lycos Customer Service Manager's Picture Held Hostage Until He Restores Customer's Email And Apologizes
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Lycos Deletes All Of Customer's Email, Tells 'Em To Suck It
This is Mike Jandreau, master and commander of all customer service at Lycos. When you don't check into your email for 30 days, Lycos deletes 2 years worth of your personal email. [Consumerist]
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By Ben PopkenComment by TrashJerk: I am a computer support professional. I have been using lycos mail for about 8 years. They do not listen... more » | Other threads
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