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The Value of Email [Infographic]

Email is still the most used, most valuable and highly-prized real estate on the Internet. According to SmarterTools, there are “nearly 3 times as many email accounts than Facebook and Twitter combined”. This infographic “places email side-by-side against social media sites Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and even demonstrates email’s ubiquity when compared to the number…

Happy 28th Anniversary Email!

It was 28 years ago today, Aug 30th 1978, when a 16 18 year old guy named Shiva Ayyadurai copyrighted “EMAIL” along with terms like “To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward”. The two words, “Electronic” and “EMAIL” – says Shiva – juxtaposed together for me originally brought images of vaporizing paper and…

The Bacon Invasion [Infographic]

Did you know that spam has a more legitimate cousin called “bacon” (or bacn)? By definition, bacn is solicited email notifications. The term – originally coined in August 2007 at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 – refers to solicited messages that seemed as invasive in a users inbox as spam. For example bacon is the Twitter updates,…