Juan and others,
I am not so sure Social Bookmarking is always the extension of the 'email a
friend' idiom. For ecommerce, I suspect the Wishlist. There is a strong
difference in user sharing behavior for products vs. articles or web pages.
For the dozens of online retailers I have worked with, '
What we have here is a classic example of not going far enough. Mixed
with once burned twice shy.
Expert users almost never use these things because they don't trust
them and they don't really offer anything that can't be done more
personally with a copy and paste of the URL.
If someone were to t
On Dec 3, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Juan Ruiz wrote:
I've been seeing the popularity of the "Email to a friend", "Email
Article", "Email page" (and many other names) feature on the
internet. Personally, I never use this feature because I think that
the company behind the website will store my emai
Thanks all for your responses. You guys have helped me answered the
"Email to a friend" dilema. This is what I've gathered from this:
- "Email to a friend" might not be used in a great deal, but it is
a expected feature.
- "Email to a friend" is used as a bookmarking mechanism to store
important c
Once the site has a relationship with you (i.e.NYTimes registratin, or
facebook) this becomes frictionless, and adds value, not only for the sender
and recipient, but also in agregate-- this of how facinating "most emailed"
is on NYtimes compared to any other measures of popularity. It's a much
str
For some additional reference, here's part of a Nielsen Alertbox
article on transactional e-mail that says that these types of e-mail
messages tend to be very well received:
"Websites often let people send an email message through their site
to a friend or colleague %u2014 they might, for example,
At Yahoo we're working on a universal sharing pattern (for our own sites)
that treats this is as just one possible mode of sharing (fwiw).
-x-
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Evan K. Stone <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos,
> etc.
> I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos,
etc. to
> others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail
> account.
I use the feature fairly often, but almost exclusively for the latter
case mentioned by Marilyn: that of emailing items of interest to
I use this feature A LOT, both to mail interesting articles, videos, etc. to
others, and also to send things I'd like archived to myself at a gmail
account.
Marilyn
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to thi
There are times when I actually wished this feature would be there -
especially when looking at products for the home that I'd like to
send to my wife for "consultation". Of course, I'd use the
public-access email instead of ones from corporate. Then at least
the spam filters can still be modifie
I think it's become an expected feature, Juan, and is used quite a
bit by novice and intermediate users.
I'm like you -- I NEVER use this feature because I don't trust the
sites to use my friend's email addresses responsibly. Just put a
line of small-sized text close to the button explaining that
A lot of corporate firewalls block access to public email sites such as
gmail or yahoo mail. In such a scenario, if I were to come across an
interesting article (not relevant to work) , I would prefer to forward it
using 'email to a friend' link rather than use my work email. I would be
interested
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Juan Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody have statistics that validate the inclusion of this feature?
> Do people really use this feature? If so, do they use it a lot?
>
I don't have stats, but just a few days ago I was wondering about the same -
a
While I do not have any statistics on the usage of email to a friend,
I imagine it is high. I use this and other sharing methods often. I've
also included email to friend features on websites without storing the
addresses or including advertising.
Tonia M. Bartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Dec 3,
People use it a ton on UIE.com (and we don't store the email addresses
anywhere, nor does it contain any advertising).
Jared
On Dec 3, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Juan Ruiz wrote:
I've been seeing the popularity of the "Email to a friend", "Email
Article", "Email page" (and many other names) feature
I've been seeing the popularity of the "Email to a friend", "Email Article",
"Email page" (and many other names) feature on the internet. Personally, I
never use this feature because I think that the company behind the website will
store my email and my friend's email address, plus the email wil
16 matches
Mail list logo
