Mozilla Messaging is a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and as the name says, focusing on messaging (via Ars Technica). The plans, as David Ascher explains, are to build a great product on the existing Thunderbird 2 base. We’ve started defining what Thunderbird 3 will be, because we think that there is enough consensus to make some of the first decisions on the most important changes to tackle first. [Continue]
I really do not like HTML emails. I dislike the composition, I hate the disparity in the way they are rendered, I get irritated with the performance and I lament the lack of standards and accessibility across the email clients. I had not given enough thought to it other than reading good articles on them. [Continue]
Google and Yahoo! want to build a social network out of your email contacts. Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. [Continue]
Before you start bashing me up, by email-like I mean they should be open. Nah, this open does not mean being a platform or letting others get the data. Open means ability to talk to anyone you want to across the boundaries of tools and technologies. [Continue]