On Message with Ben Gross

Official Gmail Blog: Create personal mailing lists through contact manager: Google has added a simple group alias feature (not really a mailing list) to the new contact manager interface. This makes it straightforward to send a message to a consistent group of individuals and it is straightforward to create groups and add or remove members. Users who wish to have traditional mailing list functionality will want to use Google Groups.

Loading “» Office Live Adds Spaces Blogs, Custom HTML Editing, Outlook Sync » InsideMicrosoft-part of the Blog News Channel” this means that all users of Office Live can now sync contacts, mail, calendar, and tasks with Outlook 2003 and 2007 among other new features. Synchronization with the Outlook calendar requires a paid account.

» Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo’s future: Life! Between the Lines ZDNet.com at his Consumer Electronics Show keynote Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang provided more details about their progress on adding social features to Yahoo Mail and how it was working to further integrate Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Maps while adding in additional information gathered from the users social network.

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