The Webmail Wars

latif writes "Much of the excitement around Gmail has centered around its innovative interface, but a pretty interface is hardly Gmail's biggest contribution. Gmail's real contribution to webmail is its innovative business model. The new business model is what's allowing Gmail to offer 1 GB storage quotas, and still have an expectation of making money. Of course, Microsoft and Yahoo have noticed this too, and one can reasonably expect them to move their webmail services to the new model. An interesting battle is shaping up between the big three webmail providers, and my article "The Webmail Wars" analyzes some possible scenarios and outcomes."

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Re:Battles

[shm]

Yahoo consistently blocks mail from HeavyReading.com and LightReading.com as spam. No amount of retraining by moving the mail or setting up filters seems to work.

Gmail works fine.

Hotmail, on the other hand, continues to be a joke.

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[datadriven]

Finally an article where this won't really be off topic, although it will get modded that way and my karma will go down even further

I have 3 gmail invites left