Our pals at the Webbys just beta-launched Netted, an email list that provides one useful Web tip per day. Reminds me of Mark F's book Rule The Web. In the Netted alpha test: a service that sends snail mail postcards with any photo you upload, a guide to the best rooms in various hotels, and visual maps of automated phone menus for 500 US companies. All neat, and all new to me. Sign up here.
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Netted: one Web tip emailed daily
Our pals at the Webbys just beta-launched Netted, an email list that provides one useful Web tip per day. Reminds me of Mark F's book Rule The Web. In the Netted alpha test: a service that sends snail mail postcards with any photo you upload, a guide to the best rooms in various hotels, and visual m... More.
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the fun tip will be the one that tells you how to get off of email lists.
Try "unsubscribe."
Try "unsubscribe."
Yeah, and have all your personal information go straight to the reptilian overlords!
Maybe one of the tips will be about how good RSS is.
having an almost pathological fear of mailing lists, i agreed to sign on to netted due to my long-standing respect for tiffany shlain (even though i assume she isn't involved in the day-to-day workings here). much to my very real surprise, this has actually proven to be a useful resource. i've forwarded at least four of the last ten emails i've received onto friends. having a bit of difficulty coming to terms with that ...