On Message with Ben Gross

Michael Sampson is speaking at the Open Collaboration Forum on November 15 about collaborative workspaces, and why email isn’t working for team collaboration. It promises to be interesting.

Last week Outblaze released an interesting survey of email users that found most people’s concerns about spam and viruses unabated, even as they signed on to more mail accounts, and hoped for easy delivery of pictures from mobile devices.
Outblaze is one of the world’s largest hosted email service providers, managing approximately 40 million active mailboxes [...]

Sales of email security products will grow to $5.5 billion by 2010, up from $3.7 billion this year, according to a new report by Ferris Research, a San Francisco-based market research and consulting firm. Ferris notes that email security revenues are increasing by almost 25% a year, and that the overall market for email security [...]

In a move that is long overdue, the AP is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo will finally make their IM services interoperable.
For its part, AOL recently began offering new deals to everyone else with AIM Presence, including bloggers and podcasters who want access to the service for non-commercial use and can now have it for [...]

If the point of messaging and collaboration tools is to share information with colleagues and customers, then making it available on a web server often makes more sense than locking it up on individual PCs. While having a local store of email is good for offline reading (think on the plane), there are a lot [...]

My friends Kaliya Hamlin and Doc Searls, along with Drummond Reed, and Phil Windley are hosting a two day Internet Identity Workshop in Berkeley on October 26 and 27th to discuss Internet-wide identity services. As Phil explains “The workshop will comprise a day of presentations on Internet-scale identity architectures followed by a day of structured [...]