Some guy named Bob probably hates me. I don't know him and he doesn't know me ... but he's the unfortunate registrant of Bob.com and has used his first name for his email address. Yup, you guessed it - that makes his email address bob@bob.com. That also happens to be the email address that I have used for the past ten years to fill out forms that require an email address that I don't want to give. For more than a decade, Bob has been getting my junk email and to tell you a truth, I feel bad about it.

Google has been quietly rolling out social features across all of its services based on Gmail contacts. While Google still has to overcome some of its social tone-deafness (e.g. automatically adding contacts without asking), this move makes perfect sense. For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph.

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According to a fresh study done by the Swedish Internet provider Spray, the amount of junk mail being sent to its subscribers has increased from 80% to 90% during 2006. I’m sure that this reflects the situation in most of Europe and the U.S. as well (AOL reported around 80% junk mail in the U.S. by the end of 2005).