My Yahoo! Mail Beta is Coming Soon

December 17th, 2005  |  Published in Uncategorized

Yahoo! Mail Beta Invitation

Well, after weeks of eagerly waiting to test-drive the new Yahoo! Mail Beta, I was so exd to find that “it is coming soon.” Yes! I got an email saying that my long-awaited invite would be–”coming soon.”

What the heck was that? Now, this might just be me, but isn’t this like ruining a surprise? It’s like: “I just want to let you know that your friends and family, and Uncle Robert (who flew all the way from across the world and whom you haven’t seen in a decade) will be surprising you later tonight. So act surprise.” Know what I mean?!?!

I’m all thankful and all but common. I have been waiting for a long time now to be surprised by an invite email in my Inbox, but only to find out and be “surprised” via a notification. Oh gosh darn it. “You won a million dollars. Now pass GO and collect your Monopoly money.”

Yahoo! Mail Team–I am surprised and grateful that my “place in line is secure” but no need to ruin the great surprise =) Anyways, I can’t wait to try out the product. I’ve been hearing a lot of interesting reviews about it. It’ll be great to see it first hand, and do some functional comparison between it, the old/recent version of Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.

From my mind to yours, you are about to read this sentence–be surprised! Surprise!

Measure Map – Alpha Test, Invite Received

November 16th, 2005  |  Published in Uncategorized

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What a nice way start a Wednesday, aka. “Hump Day”. Other than the FREE Wednesday lunch meals we get here at MA, I finally received an invite to give Measure Map a test-drive early this morning. Thank you MM/AP-family!

I know its kind of early to speculate on which are bugs or what have you, but the first two gripes I have would probably be: how long URLs are treated, and the extra table-rows under “What’s Happening on your Blog” section on the member’s Overview page. Other than that, I commend MM/AP for something that ranks as a should-be-great-app for everyone! This should shake things up a bit–especially in the Blogosphere.

I wonder if this is due to my recently posted entry on Google Analytics? =) Either way, it should be nice to compare these two analytical tools. At least the comparable features in each application. I’ll give some updates if I find interesting stuff between the two.

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