Company: Kahuna (Hotmail Ajax Beta)Status: in private beta
Location: Mountain View, CA
Previous Profile: August 16, 2005
Kahuna – Extreme Marketing
I am a little bit annoyed right now. Sometimes people get a little too cute. Microsoft’s Kahuna may be falling into that category.
I’m pretty excited about Kahuna because I love ajax and this is going to be one cool ajax application. It looks like (and should be) the new version of Hotmail will act very much like a desktop application. I like that. I want to try it out, and blog about it. And although I don’t always get an invitation to participate in a beta, I usually don’t have to waste a lot of time getting to an answer.
Kahuna is offering beta invites, but require you to read through team member blogs to find out the answers to questions. If you find the answer, you get another hint. Here’s a recent post by Imran Qureshi, the Kahuna Program Manager:
The mail team wants to invite a few more beta testers into the mail beta, but simply adding people is just too easy… so we put together a small treasure hunt:
One of our team members made a post about the origin of the product’s code name, locate his space for your next hint.
WTF? This is stupid. This is not time well spent. This does nothing to build a brand or make me a loyal user. It suceeds only in pissing me off. I’d much rather use this time either testing Kahuna (and most likely writing amazing things about it), or testing something else (there are lots of other profiles on my to-do list).
So, do you guys agree and consider it kind of lame to waste our time like this? Or am I wrong and this treasure hunt is an example of hip, cool, edgey and/or extreme marketing (marketing 2.0)?
I am now done with this particular gripe.
Kahuna Update
Back to Kahuna, Imran has posted additional screen shots and information on the service. He had a previous post where he stated 2 of his top 5 reasons for liking Kahuna.
Today he posted reasons 3 and 4 (leaving us in suspense for #5), along with a new screen shot of Kahuna (see to left):
3. Keyboard shortcuts to read mail
I’m sure the power users will love this. Use “[“ and “]” to navigate the message list and read your messages without using the mouse at all. Combine these with the preview pane and the delete key shortcut to delete messages and you can cruise through your inbox in no time flat. To read a message, click Enter to open a message in a larger view and click Esc to return to your message list. Also, “control [" and "control ]” will allow you to move between mail folders.4. Change message encoding as you read
Do you get a lot of mails in a variety languages? If the mail itself does not specify the encoding Hotmail calculates the encoding by analyzing the message. You can choose the correct encoding if mail beta’s automatic choice was wrong so your messages look right regardless of the sending language or encoding.
It really does look like Kahuna will be user friendly and fast. Looking forward to future posts on this.
Re the “treasure hunt” you have two ways to look at it:
- Glass half full: only really motivated beta testers will go through the hoops of finding the key/code/incantation that will open the hotmail chest. Which increases the probability that they actually use the product (biggest beta products issue – everyone wants to get them, many don’t do anything after getting their invitation/code).
- Glass half empty: there are so many services to be beta tested out there that I really can’t see going through a lot of steps to get an account.
- My glass: get better to do -> installing and testing Flock.
Jeff, I agree. Let’s compare notes on Flock tomorrow.
Even more annoying, they only put it on the LAST page of the treasure hunt that the beta slots were filled. If you want to be cute – at least make sure that there is something worthwhile at the end.
This seems like one more knock against MSFT being able to cater its services to the user. Gmail Beta got buzz because it was easy to log into but hard to get more invites to, not because it was hard to get started…
You would think MSFT had enough “friends” to run a beta site.
Send me your hotmail account and I’ll get you in the beta (can’t garuntee when) but you’ll be on my list
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wow. I may have complained my way into a beta invite.
Yea, I would be soo mad! I really am deciding on Yahoo or Hotmail but I can’t decide since I haven’t got a stinkin invitation yet!! urrg!
it is the wait tht is killing. Only one thing is on my mind at anytime i sign in to my email. When will i be able to sign up for my Livemail or Kauna account. Hotmail has been my all favourite cox i like its simplicity & speed.
hi, if anyone has a invite i would like it please
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hi if anybody has an invite for hotmail beta, my email address is josh.hathaway@hotmail.com
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hi, if anyone has a invite i would like it please
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I HATE BETA MAIL!!! I WANT TO DELETE IT AND GO BACK TO THE OLD HOTMAIL!!! HOW DO YOU DO IT??? TELL ME BY EMAIL!!! lauren_verdin@hotmail.com
HOW DO I GET BACK IN TO OLD HOTMAIL???
THIS BETA CRAP IS THE WORSE. I’LL CHANGE TO YAHOO OR WHATEVER BUT SOMEONE HAS TO KNOW HOW TO GET BACK IN. PLEASE HELP
I HATE MAIL BETA….. HOW CAN I DELETE IT AND GO BACK TO THE OLD HOTMAIL!!! PLEEZ HELP!!
I KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF BETA!!! WEN U GO TO UR E-MAILS U GO TO OPTIONS AND U PRESS BETA OPT-OUT!! i finally figured it out… so to all those people hoo want to get rid of beta.. im ur answer
How can I go bace to my old hotmail ?Most of thwe time I can not log on.I get Windows live mail can not able to comp;ete this request. Can you please tell me why?
If there is an invite available I promise to use it & provide the feedback. I enjoy the challenges of Beta testing.
I KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF BETA!!! WEN U GO TO UR E-MAILS U GO TO OPTIONS AND U PRESS BETA OPT-OUT!! i finally figured it out… so to all those people hoo want to get rid of beta.. im ur answer
hey, im really stuck i really wnna kno how 2 delete a msn account.. i have loadz and i wanna delete the ones i never go on.. plz help.. email me the answer to
email me plz to x-candyfloss-x@hotmail.co.uk.. my message was the above
could you send me an invitATÄ°ON OF KAHUNA PLEASE…tHANKS,,,vedatdr@yahoo.co.uk
People who want to comeout from the Beta, go to options and select Beta – Optout…
Beta opt-out
Stop using Windows Live Mail and return to MSN Hotmail.
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Dear sir,
Pls tell me that how can get my old hotmail version . because your live mail beta service is not very much good .
Bhupendra singh
Please could somebody tell me how to change back from beta, i don’t like it, my daughter in law has changed and she she used to have the opt-out on the top of the email account , but i do not appear to have one. please email me sally.toleman@hotmail.co.uk
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