But I know: Coding is hard! Much easier to whine.

That means, messages from the senders you haven’t corresponded with/ haven’t socialized with WON’T BE prioritized. So, potentially important messages from “UNKNOWN” senders will be ignored.

There should be a more refined mechanism for detecting potentially important messages and labeling them ‘not important at all’, ’somewhat important’, ‘important’, ‘really important!!!’. That’s what SenderOK plugin for Outlook and Webmail already does.

This is a one more voice for Webmail/Outlook extension that can be enabled/disabled at any time you want.

I’ve been following your posts since long here. Well, it seems like you are an active twitter, gmail, google reader user yourself. And you WANT these services to implement better features for your own comfort. Hence, you get super excited if you see even a teeny-weeny ray of hope anywhere in them.

That is perfectly fine if you’re writing to represent yourself and users like you. But, at least in E-MAIL services, it would have been worth noting that the largest email provider (Yahoo!) already provides a lot of social features, with a greater emphasis than just a one liner.

In general, your post have a pro-Google anti-Yahoo! bias. I know you quote posts where you mentioned google reader still sucking, or twitter crashing, but just count the percentages.

Yeah, Yahoo! is also made by human beings, and it screws up sometimes, unlike Google, which NEVER screws up (like marking all content as unsafe, sending all traffic to Asia, Gmail service downtime or .. ). Still, it would be good to analyze the scenarios in a broader perspective, rather than bashing Yahoo! for every small goof up.

It would be pleasant (and unexpected too) to read a post covering what new social features Yahoo! mail is releasing (as that will affect thrice as many people as Gmail would), or whats happening with Yahoo! profiles, rather than just getting to read, Yahoo! search sucks and it has nothing innovative.

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Anurag.

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I think the main issue that Paul O is raising (and that I also noticed) is regarding the type of coverage that the equivalent features received. The only mention in the post that you linked concerning Yahoo!’s social inbox:

“When you view your inbox, you can choose to view messages from just your “connections”, letting you filter out all of the email that ostensibly means less to you.”

In the above post devoted to Google’s potential, theorized social inbox:

“As someone who gets bombarded by email everyday, most of which is not from people I actually know, I would weep with joy if such a feature were implemented.”

Plus the fact that in this post, you mention that Yahoo! has been “saying” for a while that it wants to integrate your social graph into mail. That seems slanted — Yahoo! *has* integrated your social graph into their mail product, and that feature has been available in the wild for several months. Google’s offering in the arena so far is a cryptic label in their code that doesn’t have a public implementation yet, and it’s being covered in breathless anticipation, versus the same situation with the exact same feature that Yahoo! announced half a year ago (and has actually launched since), which received…a sentence. And a half-hearted, incomplete mention in this post.

I’m sure a lot of it comes down to who writes the articles, what services you personally use, and which topics evince more interest from readers that dictates the tone of your coverage. It’s just worth noting that it does seem uneven in this circumstance.

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Now that is the majic gmail is missing!

MG, ensure your mothers email gets read by setting up a “filter” (not sure if Gmail has such a feature, but outlook sure does) that places email from your mom (and other desirables) in a separate folder.

While setting up the filter does take a few clicks and typing of some text, as opposed to simply selecting the sendee and clicking “save as friend”, it achieve the same effect you are looking for.

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I don’t want to be marketed, socially linked, or tracked for “my benefit”.

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