My friend Nat Torkington from O’Reilly Radar points out a few cool email visualization tools, including Mail Trends, and this grab bag of visualizations.
Archive for March, 2008
Back
Back from almost 10 days without access to the net, email, etc., and after some exploration of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. Swam in warm caribbean waters yesterday morning, and stared at a snowstorm this morning. I can’t remember the last time I was so disconnected from the net. Recommendations: * Cochinita pibil from a [...]
Progress Update
I just realized that I forgot to blog about some of the exciting things going on in Thunderbird land these days. First, I’m very happy to announce that another engineer has signed up to work full time on Thunderbird — Mark Banner, aka Standard8 on IRC. Mark is well known to the Mozilla community, as [...]
Email client to the stars
In an interview to the London Times, Ray Tomlinson, described as the inventor of e-mail, explains that he uses Thunderbird. The more substantive comment in my mind: Does he think, given the development of other forms of electronic communication such as instant messaging and social networking, that his creation will stand the test of time? [...]
JSON vs. XML for configuration files?
One of the topics we’re discussing in Thunderbird dev land involves how to distribute configuration files for Thunderbird, so that if you’re part of a group (users of large ISPs, enterprise users, gmail users, whatever), that the “right” default configuration can be picked up as automagically as possible. There’s lots behind that effort, but there’s [...]
Turning friends into contacts into people into addressees…
I learn from ROC that Google released the API for contacts. As Robert mentions, it would be really interesting to see what we could do with that. Starting with an extension, but also using it to inform our thinking about how to rework the address book in Thunderbird 3. It’s not a particularly secret wish [...]
Faceted email reading: Seek extension, from MIT’s Simile group
As a sinner but devout follower of the Church of Tufte and general fan of information display and the like, I’ve been following the work of the Simile group at MIT for a while. Their Exhibit and Timeline projects are really interesting takes on complex visualization problems, well done. Meet the latest work product from [...]
Faceted email reading: Seek extension, from MIT's Simile group
As a sinner but devout follower of the Church of Tufte and general fan of information display and the like, I’ve been following the work of the Simile group at MIT for a while. Their Exhibit and Timeline projects are really interesting takes on complex visualization problems, well done. Meet the latest work product from [...]
Updates
A few things have happened that I keep meaning to talk about, but never find the time. Tomorrow at 9:30am PST (1730 UTC) is the first weekly status call for Thunderbird (well, first that I know of). It’ll be chaotic and unstructured I’m sure, but we’ll figure it out over the next few weeks. One [...]
