As usual, we’ve been very busy working on new features for our users. We’ve added tons of exciting stuff that we are announcing today. MessageDance at its soul is an email service — we like to call it a social email service. We grok very well with the issues affecting mainstream email services — spam, […]

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Well that subject line was a question I received recently.  Now our early beta users users know this feature very well but I thought not everybody is aware of it's full impact.
Recently we rolled out an interesting feature where users can set up their multiple email accounts. This multiple email account is like having […]

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How long we stick to a specific terminology to define what’s existing and what’s emergent is a challenge. Take the case of Social Networks. This term is as specific as your neighborhood and as vague as your religious affiliations. Actionable definition of social network is better understood in a larger context. Website can be a […]

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We know social computing has thrown a monkey wrench in the world of traditional advertising. How deep and disruptive it’s going to be, we haven’t fully estimated that. Social Ad will have big cultural impact. It will be creepy as well (if privacy concerns or lack of lack of concerns are not properly understood - […]

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For whatever reasons, we tend to think of interoperability and data portability as noble pursuits. We all have good intentions for making a case for it. Heck I personally would like to own my data and would like to exercise my freedom. Question is at what cost? There is definitely a cost to […]

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Oh how we ever lived without Seth Godin’s daily reminders. Things have changed and building successful models for marketing messages are now like daily trip to 24 Hour Fitness center. You have to do this everyday.
I will add one point to Seth’s CLELR ( anybody with less lousy acronym which can […]

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We are thrilled to launch a new service which allows users to send status updates to Twitter from their existing email account.
At MessageDance, we believe email is the most easy-to-use, widely-adopted and under-utilized tool for the social media engagement. Twitter support extends our lead in providing email broadcast capability to popular social media […]

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Fragmentation is the keyword when it comes to social media discussion. Apparently all nodes are diverging. Creation of content, distribution and all the way to consumption, all possible points are diverging. We all know how blogs, wikis, and twitter/sms have forever changed the content creation dynamics. Now industry is asking the inevitable “what’s next” […]

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Social email is the email you share with your friends in an open online destination. Your friends get your email where-ever they might be enjoying their online experience. It could be MySpace profile or Facebook application.
As a designer, question for us is to figure out the right time/day consumption pattern around our  email. If we […]

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