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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…

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,…

What are People’s Perceptions of Spam? [Infographic]

The folks at Flowtown put together this awesome infographic detailing a variety of stats around people’s perceptions of spam. Click on the image to view the full-sized version. The data for the infographic comes from the: Ipsos Public Affairs 2010 MAAWG (Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group ) E-Mail Security Awareness and Usage Report. You can access…