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Ben Shoemate

I design corporate intranets, portals, and web strategies. Co-founder of Base22. Amateur philosopher and science enthusiast.

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Apr 2, 2009

A “Thanks for your order” message with authenticity

The Saddleback Leather Company is the real deal. It has something the rest of the world is now trying to recreate after a century of washing it away with bureaucratic, six sigma, dehumanization — authenticity. The problem most large…

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Dec 27, 2007

Use Gmail to find out who sold your email address

Google lets you put a + sign in you email address that it ignores but you can use to create filters. For example, when you create an account at buy.com, just I just tell them my email address is BenShoemate+buy.com@gmail.com. If I start getting…

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Nov 29, 2007

How to upload and archive all old Chats from Yahoo IM, AOL, and others into Gmail

I love how Gmail stores all your chats and makes them available for search. But what about all the chats from before? — I have 10 years of IM’s saved — ICQ, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, Jabber, etc. My…

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Nov 13, 2007

7 Email Visualizations for Thunderbird

Now that I have all my old email in one place, my next project will be to create some visualizations to start analyzing it. What do I mean? I’m talking about graphs, charts, tables, heatmaps, grids, networks, etc that illustrate patterns in the email. For…

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Nov 10, 2007

How to organize your hard drive

This is a problem every one struggles with: what is the best file structure for old files? The problem is actually compounded by the need to do routine back-ups. As I was going through all my old hard drives as part of my email project to upload all my email into Gmail. I…

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Nov 9, 2007

How to upload all your old archived Email to Gmail from outlook, lotus notes, and Unix (pine)

This post gets a lot of attention, so I rewrote part of it. It will give you step-by-step instructions to take all your old email (in my case over 10 years worth) and…

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Oct 25, 2007

How corporate policy works (joke)

Here is an oldie but a goodie. This story made it’s rounds years ago as an email forward. I’m sure everyone has seen it before but maybe you forgot it — enjoy:

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THE PLAN

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Oct 18, 2007

Here’s to you, robot spam poet

Oh the lengths spammers go to in order to get past your spam filter. The sad thing is, I can’t tell what they are even trying to sell, which begs the question- WTF? It’s Just a cryptic message — maybe it is the first line from various books, or a random sentence. In any…