Gmail Meter Will Send You Your Interesting Email Trends
I’ve been using Gmail for as long as I can remember, and unfortunately I have more unread emails than I care to admit. The service is my lifeblood, but one thing that’s missing is the ability to gain insight into how active I am in sending and receiving email. Is there a certain time of day where I get more emails than others? That’s the type of thing I’d love to know. A Developer Programs Engineer on the Gmail team, Saurabh Gupta, has posted a note about a neat little Google Apps script called “Gmail Meter” which will send you a report at the beginning of every month with interesting data about your email interactions, as well as the ability to set up your own custom reports. It’s not an official Google app mind you, but it seems like a pretty robust script. Out of the box, the app will show you: The installation process requires you to go to Tools > Script Gallery.
(mt) Client Showcase - Swrve
Location: Los Angeles, CA website: swrve.us (mt) customer since: 2011 (mt) plan: Grid For the most part it’s finding something that I think could work better — like a garment that’s maybe in my everyday life already. – Matt, Swrve SWRVE is a Los Angeles cycling apparel company that was almost started by happenstance. When avid cycler Matt couldn’t find a pair of ¾ pants to wear when he rode his bike, he and his partner, Muriel, decided to give it a go and try and make it themselves. All of SWRVE’s cycling apparel are handcrafted with care by Muriel and Matt and are designed to work better for the bike. Relying heavily on samples, Matt and Muriel work together to create everything from abrasion resistant pants with reflective cuffs, to lightweight yet durable shirts and jackets, to gloves that offer good protection when sliding across the hood of cars. Watch the video and learn how a pair of elusive pants turned into a cycling apparel company.
How Companies Like Amazon Use Big Data To Make You Love Them
Last month, I talked to Amazon customer service about my malfunctioning Kindle, and it was great. Thirty seconds after putting in a service request on Amazon’s website, my phone rang, and the woman on the other end--let’s call her Barbara--greeted me by name and said, "I understand that you have a problem with your Kindle." We resolved my problem in under two minutes, we got to skip the part where I carefully spell out my last name and address, and she didn’t try to upsell me on anything. After nearly a decade of ordering stuff from Amazon, I never loved the company as much as I did at that moment. Remember, this was a customer-service call, so I was fully prepared for it to suck. The Most Useful Data Set in the World Big Data has gotten a lot of attention over the past 18 months as retail, manufacturing, and technology companies realize the gold mines they’re sitting on and rush to scour them for competitive advantage. Technically, this is hard to do. 1. 2. 3. The power of being known
What's America's Most Engaging Social Network? You'll Be Surprised
Try to guess America's most engaging social network. Facebook? Wrong. Twitter? Tagged users visited an average of 18 times each during March according to ComScore, second only to Facebook's average of 36 visits per vistor. Tagged co-founder and CEO Greg Tseng says he's happy about ComScore's March data, but that his company has been among America's most engaging social networks for about a year now. The longtime friends started Tagged in 2004, at the time angling it to be a Facebook-like social network for high schoolers. "We took a hard look and decided we weren't going to win," Tseng says. As opposed to sites like Facebook, where people primarily organize and maintain relationships established offline, Tagged functions mostly as a portal to meet new people online for romance or simply friendship. Tseng says Tagged's 10 million core monthly active users form an average of 100 million new connections per month.
Millennials Don't Think Like Their Parents. How Do You Design For Them?
During this year’s Super Bowl, Chevy introduced their new Sonic by making it skydive, flip, and bungee jump to the theme of We Are Young. To say they were making a run at the youth market would be an understatement. But what is this new youth market, other than young? You can call us hipsters. You can call us entitled. You can call us whiners or you can call us spoiled. Chevy just calls us people ages 16 to 30, and by that count, there are 80 million of us in the U.S. alone right now that represent $1 trillion in buying power. The Sonic Superbowl ad “As you imagine, that’s a pretty big age range,” admits John McFarland. “The components of being young are pretty timeless. The more you consider McFarland’s take on generational identity, the more his arguments begin to make sense. “Especially when people started to first design products for the youth demographic, they were bold and over the top, designed to stand out, to scream ‘I’m an individual!’”
OMG This Exists: Inhalable Alcohol Gives An Instant Buzz
Humans have been inventing weird (and often unsavory) ways to get themselves embarrassingly drunk for centuries. But the makers of Wahh, a new inhalable alcohol mist, say their product is designed to do just the opposite. Wahh is the invention of David Edwards, the Harvard professor whose inhalable caffeine and smokable chocolate have appeared on this site before. Edwards’s line of “breathable food sprays” (yum!) called Quantum Sensations includes Aeroshot, a vaporizing caffeine inhaler that received over $8.5 million in venture funding earlier this year. Edwards collaborated with French designer Philippe Starck to bring us the latest Quantum Sensation, Wahh, which debuted last week in Paris. About $26 will buy you a Wahh canister, which contains around 25 “puffs” of vaporized alcohol. The science behind the vaporizer is pretty simple. “Everyone has an occasional need of light-headedness, distraction, and another place,” says Starck, but we tend to use alcohol as a “social placebo.”
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Facebook Showing Status Update Links to Hashtags and Twitter Usernames
As the world’s dominant social network — with more than 900 million registered users — it is in every Web company’s best interests to play nicely with Facebook. Twitter looks like it is about to get a little more out of the site than most, after we discovered that tweets shared as status updates on Facebook are now showing links back to Twitter. Update: Twitter has since confirmed that it has made changes to its integration with Facebook – see our post here for more. Twitter users have been able to post links to Facebook via the microblog service for some time, and now it appears that Facebook is adding links for hashtags and usernames. Here’s a status update on Facebook (sent via Twitter) that shows the link for hashtags: The collaboration also extends to mobile, and links to Twitter usernames (in this case @usaa): There’s been no announcement unveiling this from either firms, and it isn’t entirely clear how long the links have been appearing – but it is certainly a new discovery for us.
