受信箱に大量にたまっていくメールへの対応に苦労している人は少なくないだろう。この対処法を研究者が8つの研究を通じて模索したところ、ある答えにたどり着いた。
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Demand Curve: How Zapier acquires customers via its homepage
Apply these copywriting tactics and strategies to your startup’s homepage to increase conversions.
Google brings AppSheet automations to Gmail, Jira support to Chat and Spaces
Google today announced a new feature for its AppSheet automation service that will allow developers on its no-code platform to create custom apps and automation that can interact directly with Gmail. By leveraging dynamic email, developers can now build applications that users can trigger and execute right from inside their Gmail inbox — and while […]
Amazon will allow U.S. Prime members to send gifts using only an email or phone number
In preparation for the holiday shopping season, Amazon today convenient a new way to send gifts through its mobile app. Instead of entering in the recipient’s mailing address — a piece of information people often don’t know in today’s age of digital communications — Prime members can now send a gift to a friend via their […]
Sinch acquires Pathwire, the company behind Mailgun and Mailjet, for $1.9B to add email into its API-based communications platform
Sinch, the Swedish company that competes with Twilio and others in the world of messaging and other communication APIs is making another big M&A play to build out its platform. It has signed a definitive deal to acquire Pathwire, the cloud-based email provider behind Mailgun, Mailjet and Email on Acid. Sinch said it would pay […]
メールのセキュリティ分野に参入したCloudflareが、本当に目指していること
コンテンツ配信ネットワーク（CDN）などのインフラやセキュリティーサーヴィスで知られるCloudflare（クラウドフレア）が、電子メールのセキュリティ対策に乗り出した。同社はウェブセキュリティにおける最後のフロンティアのひとつへとなぜ参入し、セキュリティ強化とプライヴァシー保護をいかに両立しようと考えているのか。
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The failings of an email address as a unique identifier
In short, I have become the center of an international network of Other Sara Morrisons who can’t get their email address right. Ever got someone else’s private email?
説得力のあるフィッシング詐欺のメールを、AIが人間よりうまく“書く”時代がやってきた
人工知能（AI）にフィッシング詐欺のメールを自動生成させたところ、人間が書いたものよりもクリック率が高い文章をつくれる段階に到達したことを、このほどシンガポールの研究チームが発表した。使われたのは、高性能な言語生成アルゴリズム「GPT-3」と、AIaaS（サーヴィスとしてのAI）のプラットフォームだ。
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Demand Curve: Tested tactics for growing newsletters
There are very few marketing channels as well rounded as email newsletters. They provide a direct line of communication; nearly 40x ROI, are infinitely scalable and virtually free.
Sedna banks $34M for a platform that parses large volumes of email and chat to automatically action items within them
Many have tried to do away with it, but email refuses to die… although in the process it might be (figuratively speaking) killing some of us with the workload it brings on to triage and use it. A startup called Sedna has built a system to help with that — specifically for enterprise and other […]