Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’

Google+ is failing! [DATA]

Click here for updated Google+ statistics overview! I have been monitoring Google+ traffic levels with Alexa from the beginning of August. It was doing OK in the first half of the month. This is why I didn’t pay much attention to it. But then the percentage of Google+ traffic from total of Google.com started to [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Facebook 50 billion, overvalued?

Yesterday a read a post about Facebook being a bubble and overvalued in the Fast Company. Bloomberg reports that a poll of global investors reveals that 69% of them think that Facebook is overvalued. Just 10% thought it was “properly valued” (and 4% thought it undervalued), while 17% had “no idea.” 50 billion valuation may [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Facebook New Message System and Email

Yes, you will get your email address in the form of the @facebook.com. Today Facebook announced its new message system. During the announcement Mark Zuckerberg described how regular email is slow and adds up to a lot of cognitive load with its subjects, signature, attachments. There’s also a lot of noise in email. Noise of [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Facebook’s Gmail killer coming on Monday

Stats show that email is getting replaced by IM and social networking sites. As I pointed out some time ago social media will replace IM and email. It would be very important for Facebook to get the current email traffic onto its site. Seems that they are coming out with their own solution. Facebook is [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

HUGE: Google Will Go For Social Media With GMail

Google is becoming irrelevant. Facebook is where people send increasing amounts of their online time. As we have pointed out earlier the main thing that is working for Google is search. Their social pushes with Orkut and Google Wave haven’t had much success. Facebook on the other hand is having a search component missing from [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

Social Media Replaces Email and IM

In our social media trends post we suggested that people will use more social networks’ messaging instead of regular email and IM tools. We haven’t seen any real research on this yet. In my opinion the convenience of using messaging tools without leaving the friendly social network will move a lot of email communication away [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

SocialTwist Social Media Sharing Trends 2009

Really interesting result for me was that: Analysis shows that the most popular channel for sharing content is email. Nearly 60 per cent use email to share content. Other major findings Despite the social media revolution – traditional forms of networking like email and instant messaging continue to be the most popular mediums of sharing [...]

Author: Priit Kallas

But what if the sun comes out?

I have been using cloud services for some time now. The most important of which is the Google Applications for Domains. GMail can be automatically backed up to your computer via POP3 or IMAP but what to do with Google Docs, wikis, Flick, Youtube and other services? In Youtube and Flickr you can archive the [...]