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- Foo667, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19"In-depth overview" is an oxymoron.
- NoAccounting4me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13At 1 page in length, it's hardly "in-depth".
It also seems like an apples-vs-oranges comparison, mixing email services that aim at small businesses (likeSproutIT, Zimbra, and Webmail) versus email services aimed at individual users. (Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail) It's unclear whether this was meant to be a review of the mail services themselves, or the the profitability of the companies and the merits of their market strategies.
While it was nice to see the add-on services listed, it would have been nice to see a discussion about how well they're integrated. Google Talk, for example, is integrated directly into the mail interface, and works surprisingly well. Zimbra offers word processessing and spreadsheets, but how well do they integrate with the mail client? Group calandering is a nice service, but if it isn't integrated with the email service, you lose a lot of value.
One notable absence in the "overview" was the difference between "free" and "subscription" accounts, and the degree of value added. Hotmail's paid service grants POP3 access, while its free version does not; Gmail is free, and gives POP3. - antron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If we're going to be consistent with the headline, shouldn't it be:
An in-detph ovevriew of the web eamil makret
/webtikcle make spell-check angel cry - dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4gmail for you domain is awesome. You can set up a 1,000 email accounts for the people in your company in just minutes.
- Tazmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I take your post as an advertisement... and a direct and verbatim copy of the post you left in the feedback section of the article.
- kyledavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My thoughts exactly. Kinda like a "detailed summary".
- Phaedruss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No offense, but your landing page could use a little work, not really ideal for people on small screens.
I'm browsing on a laptop at 1024x768 right now, and the footer is exactly on top of the "sign up!" button. Also if the page is short enough for scrolling then you can see the box around the content since the background is a gradient.
Good luck with your webmail project! - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good luck, but people would most likely go for AOL than someone they'd never heard of. You have alot of work ahead of you. You'd better have one hell of a privacy policy, then.
- jdfoote2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting topic, but bland article with little new or interesting information.
- suddenfalter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2damnit, my free webmail review was better than this guy's and i cant digg my way out. :P
- loopbiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did your marketing people write the "about" section? If you are going to blow your trumpet that loudly and call the rest of the world third-rate and not worth the time of day, then you had better be 100% perfect because you'll be torn to shreds when you slip.
Your site text looks a lot like its trying to do primal branding and you are out to generate pagans with your presumptuous bragging. Congratulations - you are well on your way. From the comments listed above here, it seems for all your perfection, you aren't very good at telling your story, because nobody seems to understand it. Perhaps you're just too perfect for us.
Here is a quote from your site:
"In case you can't already tell, we're first-class, expert artisans who deliver on budget and on time, nearly every time. There are few in the industry who can match our skills. There are none who can match our vision. (Frankly, we don't even take other design firms seriously.)"
It wears me out, just reading your pages. - ricmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As the author, I have to agree it's not in-depth (or in-detph for that matter). It's just an overview, as the title says :-) But I will try to drill down more in a future article. Thanks for the feedback.
- kahrn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I would rather have an email service that has a decent privacy policy than an email service that has space that I'll never use.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@loopbiz:
"you had better be 100% perfect because you'll be torn to shreds when you slip."
That's just the point. (only "when" should be changed to "if," above).. it's going to be awfully embarrassing for the big companies when a small(er) company like ours does a *much* better job, in every conceivable way, form and fashion: litepost.com. - pramsay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go Zimbra! I really love their web client. A little buggy but feature filled.
- ThatsHowIRoll, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As the big providers add valuable features, popular email could addresses become more valuable too ;)
This is under dev, but the idea is there: http://www.inboxlist.com
Spam concerns for john@gmail.com, yada yada. Antispam techniques are to be left to the providers. - EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I use quite a few different email accounts(too many IMHO).
Out of all that I have tried I like Windows Live mail the most. Very low amounts of spam(1 every other day or one a week. And I have been using this account for over a year and a half).
I would have to say that the amount of space is probably the least important detail for an email account. Anything over 1MB is more than enough for me. - thefinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"in-detph"??
how about a little effort at basic spell checking
it's "in-depth"
though the article itself isn't.
no digg - def1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Disclaimer aside, I regard it as spam.
- suddenfalter, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Awesome article.
You may be interested in the top 6 free webmail that have 1+ GB of storage. I found this pretty interesting.
http://chronicles.weblogs.us/2006/08/04/top-6-free-webmail-1gb/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I just want to let everyone know that we're going to be releasing Litepost in the near future:
http://www.litepost.com
It has a number of compelling technologies (including some new "killer features") that kick the pants off *ALL* the existing email providers.
I hope you do not regard this message as spam, it's more like fair warning (!). :)
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