[Fly on the Wall] New feature at Amazon, EVDO, Gmail spam filtering, and “Tips”
Written by on December 13th, 2007 in Ajax News.
Some recent activity at the internal 37signals Campfire chat room.
New feature at Amazon
| Jason F. |
Neat new feature on Amazon…
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| Jason F. |
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| Jason F. |
"Most Helpful" good and bad review
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| Mark I. |
I noticed that the other day. Amazon felt like it didn’t change much for a long time, but over the past several months they’ve made a bunch of nice tweaks.
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| Jason F. |
I like their redesign.
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| Mark I. |
Just renewed my Amazon Prime membership the other day.
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| Mark I. |
It’s such a no-brainer.
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| Mark I. |
I ordered four gifts for my kids the other day, one at a time and didn’t worry about bundling the purchases up to save shipping.
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| Mark I. |
That’s the one feature I really want that they won’t give me: the ability to filter results by Prime status.
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| Jeremy K. |
Mark – you can limit Seller to Amazon.com
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| Mark I. |
I didn’t realize that.
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Full Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in 37signals.
EVDO
| Mark I. |
My cable went down last night in the middle of all that drama. I was very happy to have EVDO at that point.
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| Jason F. |
Oh Mark how has that been BTW? The EVDO?
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| Mark I. |
It rocks.
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| Mark I. |
I was getting just under T1 speed.
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| Jason F. |
no kidding. wow.
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| Mark I. |
At 4 out of 5 bars.
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| Mark I. |
I’m very happy with it.
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| Jason F. |
And how much is it per month?
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| Mark I. |
$60
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| Mark I. |
It’s dirt cheap.
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| Jason F. |
Unlimited access?
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| Jason F. |
This is through Sprint, right?
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| Mark I. |
Yep.
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| Mark I. |
Sprint has the best EVDO network right now.
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| Jason F. |
And what USB "card" do you have?
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| Jason F. |
I may sign up for emergency access.
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| Jason F. |
My cable connection has been a bit unpredictable lately.
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Gmail spam filtering
| Jason F. |
FYI, filtering my email through Gmail first has eliminated nearly 1000 spams that would usually make it through to my inbox.
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| Jason F. |
I highly recommend it if you have a spam problem
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| David H. |
gmail def seems better than spamsieve
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| Jason F. |
yeah and I have SpamSieve running also
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| Jason F. |
But it was just not making the cut based on the # of spam I have
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| Jason F. |
It caught a lot, but I get nearly 2000 a day so even a few percent was dropping 50-100 in my inbox a day
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| Jason F. |
Gmail is catching almost evertyhing
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| David H. |
I think I’m going to jump on that.
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Tips
| Ryan S. |
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| Ryan S. |
why do apps offer "tips" when you start?
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| Ryan S. |
i don’t want a "tip". i don’t even know how the app works yet
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| Ryan S. |
it sounds like a game or something
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| Ryan S. |
"want a hint?"
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| Jason F. |
"Tips" is the wrong word, agree
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Source: Signal vs. Noise
Original Article: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/738-fly-on-the-wall-new-feature-at-amazon-evdo-gmail-spam-filtering-and-tips