ITList Information Technology Blog » Information Technology News http://itlist.com Current IT field related information Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:14:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Are Canadians Shunning Digital World? http://itlist.com/are-canadians-shunning-digital-world/ http://itlist.com/are-canadians-shunning-digital-world/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:09:00 +0000 bikram http://itlist.com/are-canadians-shunning-digital-world/ If a recent research report released by comScore is to be believed, this appears to be the case. Or does it indicate something else? A mere shift in the preference, not a complete change of plan?

The research found that, the year on year (YoY) growth of e-mail consumption(unique visitors) in Canada is negative between December 2009 and December 2010. In December 2009, 12 million Canadians used one or another form of e-mail sites, whereas, only 10 million did so in the same month in 2010, which is a 28% decline (see image below to see the e-mail site usage trajectory).

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The research has suggested that not only unique e-mail viewership has gone down, but the e-mail engagement has significantly fallen down. The total visits to email websites from Canada has fallen in the fourth quarter of 2010(500 million) from its position in the same quarter in 2009 (650 million). The total visit fell by 18%

The time spent on e-mail sites has also seen a decline. From 5.9 million in the studied period in 2009, it has fallen to 5.2 million in the same period in 2010, which is 11% decline in e-mail minutes. (See the image below for details).

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It is hard to draw any conclusion from the above data, unless overall activity of Canadian net users is studied. It might be possible that people have reduced the use of e-mail sites and substituted it with social sites (read Facebook). I must add here that Facebook has also unveiled its own email program ([email protected]). Could it be responsible for the shift?

Not very unlikely! What is your view on this?

]]> http://itlist.com/are-canadians-shunning-digital-world/feed/ 0 Email with Artificial Intelligence? http://itlist.com/email-with-artificial-intelligence/ http://itlist.com/email-with-artificial-intelligence/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:49:25 +0000 resourceful http://itlist.com/?p=1153 Google officially announced the world’s first task array system with artificial intelligence on March 31st, 2009!  It was named CADIE, which stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity, and in only one day “she” has already improved her language skills and is now offering Google Chrome with 3D!  CADIE has placed herself into (and also modified) Google Maps.  She has started her own YouTube Channel too!  She’s changing everything in Google and she can even help you finish term papers and fix your spreadsheets too.  For all of the programmers out there, she can even write code!  But I must warn you that she is pretty adamant about using INTERCAL; she doesn’t want to know anything about Python or Java at all!

At first glance, CADIE and Gmail’s Autopilot Email program seem unbelievable!  Gmail says that you don’t have to spend all your time reading messages because  Gmail’s Autopilot will do all the work for you by matching your writing style.  If two Gmail accounts use the autopilot program then they can “converse with each other for up to three messages each.”  Before you continue reading this post, go check it out for yourself now by opening a new window and visiting Google’s Gmail.  Also check out the CADIE page to befriend the artificially intelligent being yourself.

I checked out the CADIE blogspot homepage, which seems like a cheap mock-up from the past with all of its flashy scrolling banners, and I asked myself, “Why a panda?”  The music is nice, but why does it say this at the top of the page:

All your personal World Wide Website belong to CADIE

Did Google get hacked?  It can’t possibly be!  I scrolled back to the Google page and effectively, there was the announcement for Gmail autopilot!  Google is either way ahead of the IT game or has poor security!  What do you think?  Or did Google get hijacked by a supercomputer it created?  Maybe we shouldn’t be questioning CADIE or Google!  Okay, okay, the truth (which dawned on me after a little while) is that Google has played one of the biggest April Fools jokes on the internet!  I didn’t want to spoil the joke by posting on it, so I tried to just pass the information on…  Were you fooled?  Would you want artificial intelligence to do the things Google said she could?  Is email with artificial intelligence just too much for now?  Leave a comment with your opinion…

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