Day: June 20, 2006

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Email is Dead

O’Reilly Radar > Spam Filtering Statistics from oreilly.com – So, O’Reilly domains see a good mail to spam ratio of 1:34. Out of every 35 messages coming into O’Reilly domains only 1 is a legit email. At CALI well over 90% of our incoming email is bogus. Between my various accounts I’m getting over 1,000 messages a day, but only about 50-60 of those are not spam of one sort or another. I’ve quit looking at the spam folders on my accounts, I just delete them. Am I missing email? I don’t think so. It has been a few years since I got one of those I tried to email you but never heard back messages and didn’t find the note neglected in my inbox. The reality is that email as we know and love it is dead as an effective communication channel. And there is nothing to replace it. So we soldier on.

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Yahoo! Messenger Gets Plugin API

There are two categories of plugins. Conversation Plugins interact with the chat environment itself. For example, with the event finder plugin, two people chatting can bring up a Yahoo map and find pegged restaurantes, venues, etc. to discuss them. Another plugin that I saw demo’d was the “avatars space” where users can interact in a virtual environment using avatars, pull in flickr photos and othe props, etc. The other type of plugins, Personal Plugins, pull content directly into the IM client itself. Users can add news, Yahoo 360, calendar plugins, etc. The idea is to pull core web services into the IM client, avoiding the need to open a browser.

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo Opens IM to Developers

So, can we run CALI Lessons inside of Messenger? The idea would be intriguing since it would allow a certain level of collaboration between students. Or imagine a prof walking a student thorugh a Lesson while chatting (text or voice, remember Y!M has VOIP built-in). Or we pull content through the WebAPI of eLangdell. Something to look into.

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