blending the mix

So as you well know, my job search continues! With a broad mix of experience from direct mail right through to online and web 2.0 bits and pieces, part of me wonders what do other people see about my experience?
If you too want to consider where others see your skills, try this:
1. Open Gmail and […]

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Talking to a colleague earlier this week, it suddenly dawned on me I could actually be damaging my business through my own treatment of unwanted email.
Do you unsubscribe to emails you don’t want to receive or do you mark them as spam?
Just as I thought! Isn’t it so much easier to let hotmail, yahoo and […]

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My Sony laptop is on the verge of packing in, after years and years of (ab)use it is at death’s door.
The CD drive does not allow me to burn back-up discs anymore and it is pot luck as to whether or not it will work from one day to the next.
So, I am offering […]

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So, hot on the heels of [tag]Yahoo[/tag] Mail Beta, comes [tag]Windows Live Mail[/tag] Beta Invitation:

Promising the following features (might as well copy and paste from the Yahoo email!!):

Previews
Drag & Drop organisation
One-click junk/spam control (i.e. an icon!)
Right-clicking (reply, delete and forward)
2Gb of storage

Fair play, they are up with everyone else in trying to keep people using […]

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BBC News runs a great story on how [tag]MSN[/tag] WAS intending to charge for hotmail, but actually ISN’T!
The article (linked above) was written in 2001 when MSN WERE thinking about it after the dotcom bubble burst!

What has brought the news to the fore again is a rogue email linking back to the story!!
So, don’t fall […]

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[tag]Yahoo[/tag] have launched sign-up for their next generation [tag]Yahoo Mail[/tag] service with a tantalising sign-up page with small embedded animations teasing us with the new features.
From other reports I’ve seen and heard, and looking at the tiny shots, the mail interface looks to be very much less bog-standard webmail and more Outlook (Express).
With added MS […]

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