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April 25, 2005
Email Mooditude
Communication these days happens alot over email or IM, which is primarily text-based. The invention of emoticons :) was a great way to express mood, attitude, facial expression, and otherwise nonverbal behavior through the use of simple keystrokes. LiveJournal goes a step further by allowing bloggers to attach a 'mood' to a post ("I'm hungry" / "I'm bored", etc.).
So, how about extending this concept to email? Imagine if you could send/receive email with a 'mood' label, similar to how you can label things 'important'? Then if you received an email from a friend or family member, the mood of the email could help determine if you need/want to read that message right away. Sure, ideally, you would read every email you received right away, but many of us are getting bombarded by 25, 50, 100+ messages a day, and adding a special helper label like this might actually get people to read certain types of messages more often.
Posted by MaTT at 12:46 AM | Comments (4)
April 14, 2005
Yahoo stole my idea!
Check this out -- maybe they're reading my blog:
News.com: Yahoo offers free hosting to small businesses
(See this idea if you don't know what i'm talking about.)
Posted by MaTT at 09:01 PM | Comments (4)