Published: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:36:05 +0000

Is e-mail obsolete? Far from it. We continue to gather more and more information in our inboxes: personal and professional communications, but also marketing and commercial ads, alerts and notifications from websites or social networks, search engines results, agendas, … The NextMail’11 workshop will focus on current research and emerging trends in email research. I’m [...]

Published: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:37:41 +0000

An interesting aspect of online group communication is the phenomena of backchannel. Backchannel in computer-mediated communication (CMC) allows participants within a group conversation to exchange private communication which is visible only to the sender and receiver. Many existing forms of CMC provide such capability – think IRC, Skype and even Twitter (through direct messages). Launched [...]

Published: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:38:24 +0000

In work reminiscent of their original ReMail work, but targeted at mobile email, IBM is rethinking mobile email. Their focus is on fast email triage on mobile devices, including how to capture intended actions, such as those that might be actioned on the desktop at a later time (rather than on the mobile device). While [...]

Published: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:59:14 +0000

A quick note about a new feature in the email client on the iPhone in the latest iOS4 release. When you receive an email with a date or time mentioned in it, Apple’s email client automatically detects the date, and presents it as an underlined hyperlink. Clicking the date then creates an event in your [...]

Published: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:55:39 +0000

Way back in 2008 at the AAAI Workshop on Enhanced Email, Mark Dredze mooted that emails from the Clinton era would at some stage be released to the public. Happily, just days ago, the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum began releasing email and other records from the US Clinton Administration. The first release [...]