Here is a juicy little bit of information for this Friday night. On a bookshelf near you this July 14th you can pick up a copy of “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook. A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.” Bestselling author Ben Mezrich tells the amazingly true story of the accidental creation of Facebook and the adventure that followed. I wouldn’t mind seeing a scandalous Facebook feature film, or at least an exaggerated storyline spun into CSI: Miami!
Ben Mezrich is best known for “Bringing Down the House,” the story of how six MIT students took Vegas for millions in blackjack.
Today we use email for everything from sending messages, delegating tasks, collaborating on documents and files, to managing contacts and more. Many of us would be crippled without our email accounts but at the same time we are bogged down with overflowing inboxes. A study from Basex Research (Q4 2008) shows that businesses lose an estimated $650 billion in productivity annually from unnecessary email, which accounts for an average of 2 hours/day per worker.
Many online collaboration platforms have proposed that the solution lies in a unified set of tools for managing different types of information more effectively rather than trying to manipulate email functionality to fit our needs. Today I came across this
whitepaper released by HyperOffice that I think does a great job of breaking down the issues of email overload and proposing solutions based around enterprise collaboration software.
