If you have an e-mail box, no doubt you've received such electronic come-ons.
TechCrunch has a fascinating article out about the elite of the criminals in Nigeria who flood your e-mail in box with revelations of vast fortunes waiting to be unlocked in bank accounts or, more recently, mail-order brides waiting to light up your life.
In his story on money laundering Michael Freedman mentions the emergence of new forms of e-money (see box, p. 104).
"Half of my in-box is filled with e-mail from guys in different departments saying they've heard about some project we're working on and they want to know more because they have clients who could benefit from those products, " says Toyama.
Moving its e-mail sign-up box above the fold (saving users from scrolling down to find it) helped Levenger.com --a high-end retailer of reading accessories like bookmarks and pens--expand its e-mail list 200% in one month, says Lynnette Montgomery , vice president of e-commerce.
She stumbled upon the Work-At-Home Moms Web site (see box) and joined its E-mail networking list.
Wesley Sneijder's powerful 52nd-minute winner from just outside the box settled a fascinating Group E contest between two contrasting sides who opened up in the second half and were creating good chances right up to the final whistle.
Soaps and matchboxes are quite popular. e.g Imran Khan has a match box ad.
In an innovative twist on the traditional e-commerce formula, Light in the Box leverages those Chinese factories to churn out lower-cost private label products made precisely to customer specifications.
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Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.
It was, in fact, instantly addictive, as I hunted down five year old e-mails that had been buried in my in-box.
Today it looks as though bookstores are doomed by e-readers with not only independents disappearing but the big box chains already retrenching.
AssetLock (formerly YouDeparted.com) offers a "secure safe deposit box" for digital copies of documents, wishes, letters and e-mails.
Note to other ARPA-E attendees: please let me know if you hear of outside-the-box energy ideas, or mention them in the comments.
Awkward though this is, e-mail's rigid protocols make it hard to innovate in the in-box.
For example, some of the Intel employees asked by the company to retain their e-mail after AMD filed its suit failed to move electronic messages from their 'sent box' to their hard drive, where they would have been preserved, Intel's lawyers wrote in the letter.
While many people take great pride in shopping locally (vs. buying online from Amazon or some other e-tailer), they miss the point by hitting up Wal-Mart or another big box retailer.
It also provides the ability to synch more data (i.e. user fields, customizations) and on a more detailed schedule then most other out of the box tools.
These documents were neatly organized in folders, but my e-mail (including large volumes of spam) was just sitting, uncategorized, in my in-box.
What would happen is that an e-mail sent by virtual Jack to virtual Jane would end up in actual Jane's in-box as well.
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