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Mail Trends: what's your email look like on a graph?

Posted Mar 26th 2008 11:00AM by Danny Mendez
Filed under: Fun, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Google, Freeware, web 2.0

Mail Trends
Ever wonder what your email behavior looks like on a graph? Because if you have, we've good news for some of you -- well, those of you that use Gmail. Google coder Mihai Parparita just released a Python program called Mail Trends, which can show you various graphs of data extracted from your email account. You can examine your email behavior from various angles:
  • Distribution of messages by year, month, day, day of week and time of day
  • Distribution of messages by size and your top 40 largest messages
  • The top senders, recipients and mailing lists you're on.
  • Distributions of senders, recipients and mailing lists over time
  • The distribution of thread lengths and the lists and people that result in the longest threads
If you don't use Gmail, fear not. The plan is to eventually release a version that works with other email services, though it is unknown when that version will see the light of day.

[via Googlified]

As malicious code increases, so does confidence in Internet security

Posted Feb 7th 2008 10:00AM by Romeo Wahed
Filed under: Internet, Security

Internet securityBaseline put up an interesting piece about a Cisco Systems survey showing that "56 percent of remote workers using enterprise PCs to access the Internet say their perception of Internet security increased." Which, interestingly enough, is at a time when malicious code threats are on the rise, according to, at least, this Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (PDF).

Granted, the Symantec source may not be totally unbiased, but the reported rise of malicious code being up 185% in the first 6 months of 2007 compared to the last 6 months of 2006, would suggest that any confidence in security getting better is largely based on perception alone.

Apparently, the big reason why remote workers have a heightened confidence in Internet security is because they are not responsible for the security on their enterprise machines, since someone else is technically in charge of it. That, bundled with a mass migration of services such as banking to the Internet, seems to give people false confidence that the Internet is getting "safer."

But what are the perceptions of Internet security for the average end user? With some recommending to stop using antivirus software altogether due to lack of stopping power and drain on processing performance, are we being naive when using the Internet for sensitive transactions? Maybe, but it's interesting to see how marketing for security software and new uses for the Internet are giving it an aura of safety beyond what is perhaps merited.

Or maybe we've got it all wrong, and Internet security is indeed getting better despite an influx of malicious code.

[via Slashdot]

Get your clothes on with Trendmill

Posted Jul 5th 2007 5:30PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Fun, Internet, Utilities, Blogging, Web services, Social Software

trenmill fashion social networkSocial networks are obviously where it's at, and the more niche and targeted they can get, all the better for users. Its now time for clothes lovers to unite with this latest network.

Trendmill is the newest member to hit the fashion social network scene. Users can upload images of clothes they wish to own, as well as clothes they do own. Trendmillers can then vote and rate on other user's clothes giving them the thumbs up or down while they search for the next in thing. Brands are also represented here with their lines with users rating and ranking them, a good marketing tool to gauge what customers are fond of. Trendmill also features some fashion editorial content and links out to fashion in the news.

Other sites in the fashion social network scene are Iqons and StyleHive.

[via techcrunch]

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