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Gmail Meter
I tried out a new service this past week called Gmail Meter. It's a free analytics service that tells you stuff about how you use Gmail. It is brought to market by the folks at ShuttleCloud, which does...
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Feature Friday: Open In Drive
One of my favorite features of Gmail is the ability to get a file (.xls, .doc, .ppt, .pdf, etc, etc) and have the option to open that file in Google Drive. It is that single feature that allowed me...
View ArticleFun Friday: Things We Hate About Email
It’s been almost a month since we did a fun friday. I was talking with an old friend yesterday about how much we all hate email. So I thought we could spend friday at AVC collectively hating on email....
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Feature Friday: Undo Send in Gmail
Here’s a good reason to read the comments at AVC. You learn things. On Monday I wrote a post about sending stuff to the wrong people and a number of folks in the comments explained that there is a...
View ArticleThe Context.IO App Challenge
I recently agreed to be a judge for the Context.IO App Challenge. It is a long-format online hackathon. Developers and entrepreneurs have until September 1 to build and submit consumer applications...
View ArticleCollaborating On A List
Every business has this situation, some many times a day. Over the weekend, our team at USV was discussing an event we are putting together and people we might invite. One of us started the thread and...
View ArticlePhishing
I read this story about how hackers got into Colin Powell and John Podesta’s emails. It is somewhat shocking to me that Google’s algorithms allowed fake emails from Google to get into a Gmail user’s...
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Feature Friday: Gmail Reminders
I don’t know when Gmail started doing these for me but it was around the time I switched over to the new UI. Most likely this is one of the features of that new UI. When I have not responded to an...
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Feature Friday: Gmail Predictive Typing
I was typing emails on my new Pixelbook yesterday and as I started a new word, Gmail would finish the word and often suggest an entire phrase to come after the word. All I had to do is hit tab to...
View ArticleThe + Email Hack
I found myself using this hack a few times this week and I thought I would share it. I think many/most of you probably know it, but it is so damn useful that it’s worth sharing it anyway. If your...
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