DokDok brings developers the missing email API [100 invites!]

DokDok, a startup based in Montreal that offers a way to track, compare and manage email attachments has just launched a product that?s being called the ?missing email API?.

The Canadian company is aiming to simplify email integration for app developers, specifically for CRM (customer relationship management), document management and productivity apps.

Context.IO, developed to power DokDok?s attachment management applications, allows developers to build apps using the power of its email API enabling developers to get instant access to email conversations and attachments from one HTTP call. A process that DokDok claims wasn?t possible before without using ?complex sequences of IMAP requests?.

The API will work with a vast majority of email services including Gmail and Yahoo mail however any email that you can access using IMAP is supported.

DokDok explained on its blog that its API differs from existing email integration options, stating that Context.IO, unlike the others, doesn?t demand a variety of extra steps that are often ?error-prone?.

Up to now, ?email integration? in CRM or productivity apps meant adding an obscure BCC on outgoing emails and forwarding incoming emails; a manual, repetitive and error-prone process.


So what kinds of things can you do with the API?
In November during hackMTL, a one day hacking event held in Canada, a developer used DokDok?s API to create an app that transformed his inbox into a visual representation of his social graph. DokDok says that Nicholas Kruchten?s app is the most unexpected case use for the API so far.

Using Context.IO to display attachments, Google apps and emails from Gmail can be done with CRM web apps like 37signals?s Highrise. In fact DokDok built a Chrome extension for this purpose.

DokDok Says Email Isn?t Dead

We spoke with the founder of DokDok Bruno Morency and he shared with us the reason he thinks Context.IO is a useful tool for developers.

The basis is the fact that mail boxes contain a lot of information; business documents, conversations with clients and internal discussions. It?s very hard for application developers to get that information. This is what we do. We make it easy for developers to use the mailbox as a data source for their information.

Morency explained that until very recently, many people thought email was dead and he tells us that there has been a shift in opinion. He told us that while a lot of people tried to kill email by building alternatives, he feels that folks are now realizing that for ?business exchange, documents, communications, client relationship ? email is where it happens?.

DokDok, now funded by Real Ventures was started in February of 2009 and its first major product was a Gmail contextual gadget that was launched last June.

Invites!

The service is currently free but two pricing options will be available soon. Developers will be able to pick a plan based on the number of calls made to the API or based on the number of mailboxes accessible under your API key. The free account lets you do up to 2000 calls per month on up to 3 mailboxes (using a single API key).

Without an invite code, developers will be placed on a waiting list but DokDok has given us 100 codes for immediate access. If you?re interested go to Context.IO and look for the yellow button. The access code is: tnwcdn

IMAP was designed for email clients. It?s great to replicate a set of folders and a plain list of emails within these folders but getting anything else through IMAP is pretty painful. This is where Context.IO shines. A single call replaces complex sequences of IMAP requests, thereby facilitating a wide array of use cases other than email clients.

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Party Seeks One Voice. Schumer Steps Forward.

Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, long admired, and reviled, for his uncanny ability to make it all about Chuck, has worked his way into the party?s No. 3 job in the Senate, where he puts his promotional talents to work on behalf of all his Democratic colleagues.

With his party still trying to regain its footing after Republican gains in November, and with many fellow Democrats already worried about holding on to their seats in 2012, he has been given responsibility for sharpening the Democratic message from Capitol Hill and marrying it more effectively to the policies the party is trying to advance.

?Usually, things change when you don?t do so well,? Mr. Schumer said. ?My job, our job as a caucus, is to focus on the average family, to show them we actually care about them.?

This will be accomplished, he contends, through the three P?s: ?policy, politics and press.?

But leading a disparate group of Senate Democrats ? a group at war with the emboldened House Republicans and in search of cover from the White House ? is proving a challenge.

Mr. Schumer must weigh the hopes of his most liberal members, who crave open ideological battle with Republicans, while watching the backs of moderates, who are pushing for their own deficit-reduction narrative.

?Getting everyone in the tent is hard,? said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri. ?Getting everyone to speak with one voice is near impossible.?

What is more, Mr. Schumer?s attempt to verbally smack around Republicans has frequently been cold-shouldered by the White House, where President Obama has been repositioning himself more toward the political center and shying away from inflaming the budget fight. White House aides have more often than not tossed sheets of ice on the fairly enormous hill that Mr. Schumer climbs in leading his caucus forward.

The Democrats are clear that they want fewer cuts to discretionary spending than Republicans are demanding, but they have yet to settle on what level of reductions they would accept. There are rifts within the party over taxes, addressing the long-term costs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, reining in agricultural subsidies and scaling back the war in Afghanistan.

?They seem to be pushing different agendas,? Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, said of Senate Democrats. ?I think they are getting ahead of themselves.?

Mr. Schumer?s difficulties were foretold in December, days after he assumed new responsibilities as both vice chairman of the Democratic caucus and chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. As the House and Senate fought over the preservation of the Bush-era tax cuts on upper-income levels, Mr. Schumer pushed for a tax that would extend only to millionaires; the proposal fell flat, with the White House failing to support it.

Fast-forward to last Wednesday. Mr. Schumer gave a high-profile speech insisting that cuts to entitlement programs and tax increases be part of the spending bill discussion; hours later, a White House spokesman said that would not be happening. Mr. Schumer concedes that their paths diverge, but brushes off the idea that this is suboptimal.

?As long as we communicate,? he said, ?everything will work out.?

Over 72 hours, Mr. Schumer showed up at news conferences and events to push the notion that House Republicans are pushing the federal budget off the rails. There he was Sunday on NBC?s ?Meet the Press? saying Republicans will not compromise. On Monday, between zipping around New York, he issued a news release intended to fan the flames of that argument.

Tuesday morning he was on a conference call with Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan ? one of Mr. Schumer?s four public events ? ostensibly to talk about China?s hoarding of rare earth elements, but also attacking House conservatives for trying to attach policy initiatives to the short-term spending plan.

?The conservative Republicans in the House are showing themselves to be the Scott Walker Republicans,? Mr. Schumer said, referring to the governor of Wisconsin. They are trying to ?shoot for the moon on a wish list of far-right policy measures.?

For many Senate Democrats, Mr. Schumer?s new role has been a great gift for a group still smarting from missteps that dinged the body?s reputation in recent years.

Last year, at a Democratic retreat, junior senators, led by Al Franken of Minnesota, lit into the White House staff about being left out, even though they helped secure the party?s majority.

?I?ve really appreciated how he?s made our decision-making process much more participatory,? Mr. Franken said of Mr. Schumer in an e-mail. ?Knowing that our primary focus is on how our work here affects our constituents back home, he also has made a noticeable effort to ensure that we have clear information on how each policy affects our state specifically.?

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Hardware 20 - What's with all the Kettle Leads?

Hardware 20 - What's with all the Kettle Leads?

Posted on 11th Mar 2011 at 16:10 by Paul Goodhead with 10 comments

After a brief hiatus, we've now returned with another hardware podcast, bringing Paul, James, Clive and Harry together to talk about the latest happenings in the hardware world.

First up on our list of topics is the AMD Radeon HD 6990. The card has firmly cemented itself at the top of the graphics card hierarchy, but how easy is it to live with such a card? We also discuss the unusual overclocking switch, which is a standard feature that also voids your warranty if you actually use it.

Next up on the agenda is Western Digital's takeover of Hitachi's hard drive division, as well as the fact that Sandy Bridge motherboards are finally back on the shelves. As well as this, we also discuss the plague of kettle leads that appears to be taking over our lab.

Finally, we comment on the news story we ran earlier in the week that detailed some purportedly leaked information about AMD's forthcoming processor line-up.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition. The lucky winner will be able to get their hands on a Mionix Propus 380 mousepad, which will provide the perfect tracking surface for whichever mouse you choose to use.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast directly, listen to it in your browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Hardware 20 - What's with all the Kettle Leads?

Hardware 20 - What's with all the Kettle Leads?

Posted on 11th Mar 2011 at 16:10 by Paul Goodhead with 10 comments

After a brief hiatus, we've now returned with another hardware podcast, bringing Paul, James, Clive and Harry together to talk about the latest happenings in the hardware world.

First up on our list of topics is the AMD Radeon HD 6990. The card has firmly cemented itself at the top of the graphics card hierarchy, but how easy is it to live with such a card? We also discuss the unusual overclocking switch, which is a standard feature that also voids your warranty if you actually use it.

Next up on the agenda is Western Digital's takeover of Hitachi's hard drive division, as well as the fact that Sandy Bridge motherboards are finally back on the shelves. As well as this, we also discuss the plague of kettle leads that appears to be taking over our lab.

Finally, we comment on the news story we ran earlier in the week that detailed some purportedly leaked information about AMD's forthcoming processor line-up.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition. The lucky winner will be able to get their hands on a Mionix Propus 380 mousepad, which will provide the perfect tracking surface for whichever mouse you choose to use.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast directly, listen to it in your browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Europe's Cookie-Cutting Plan

Cookies have long been an integral part of the Web. But in Europe, at least, the future of cookies has been thrown into doubt thanks to an impending piece of legislation that will seek to regulate their use. 

Web cookies are small strings of data containing information like your login credentials or the contents of your shopping cart. Websites upload this data to your browser. Cookies are also the core component behind advertising systems that use behavioral targeting?a method to provide more personalized, and therefore more profitable, ads. Visit a travel website, for example, and a tracking cookie planted by an advertising network will register your interest in a trip overseas. Later, when visiting other websites that are part of the same ad network, the information in that cookie will be used to serve you advertisements for vacations.

On May 25, a new European Union directive on the use of cookies will come into force. The directive (actually an amendment to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive of 2002) asks European Union member states to come up with legislation that ensures that Web users give their consent for websites to use cookies that store their private information.

The directive actually applies to only one specific type of cookie: those used by advertising systems to record the sites you visit. But millions of sites use such methods?since the more targeted the ad, the more likely you are to click, and the more you click, the greater their income. The approach increasingly underpins the Web economy, but European officials are concerned that the rapid increase in advertising networks has not been matched by an increase in the information given to users about how they are tracked online. Websites such as SelectOut reveal how many services are tracking you.

European companies won't be the only ones that will have to comply, either: businesses headquartered in the U.S. but with European offices will also be subject to the rules. Potentially, so will any company that interacts with customers inside the E.U.?at least under one very broad interpretation of the guidance.

But precisely how users will be asked to give consent is still up for grabs. While some envision the nightmare scenario?an endless stream of pop-up boxes asking for a user's permission to store the most miniscule piece of information?experts suggest that there may be a wide number of ways to reduce the pain for users. "Clearly, if you direct someone to a landing page asking for their permission every time, it will not work?everyone is looking for the least intrusive method possible," says Phil Lee, a senior associate specializing in Internet privacy issues at the London-based law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse.

Some sites may believe they can hide information about their tracking services deep in the small print on a website, enabling them to argue that failing to refuse consent is the same as granting it. However, Lee says, this is often the current method of disclosure?and something the directive is explicitly designed to change. "Simply burying stuff in the terms and conditions or privacy policy will no longer be enough," he says.

In fact, some national governments are examining whether better in-browser tools may circumvent the need for individual sites to ask permission altogether. This approach chimes with moves already being made in the browser industry; Google and Mozilla have taken some steps to let users opt out of certain tracking systems in Chrome and Firefox, and have indicated that they may be willing to go even further.

"The Web is evolving quickly in how information about people is collected, used, and shared online," wrote Mozilla's global privacy leader, Alex Fowler, last month. "We believe it's crucial to put people in control of their personal Web interactions and experiences."

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Steampunk battle station puts your wimpy desk to shame

And you thought that your pathetic battle station was even half cool enough to share on Reddit. Avast, me hearty, this desk has you beat.

Sure, Steampunk might not be your thing, but you can?t deny the innate quality of the desk below. From the Pirates of the Caribbean organ feel to the three monitor layout to the brilliant keyboard, we want to live this dream.

Look at your desk, now look at the picture, now back at your desk, don?t you want to work at a setup like the one in the photo?

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Steampunk battle station puts your wimpy desk to shame

And you thought that your pathetic battle station was even half cool enough to share on Reddit. Avast, me hearty, this desk has you beat.

Sure, Steampunk might not be your thing, but you can?t deny the innate quality of the desk below. From the Pirates of the Caribbean organ feel to the three monitor layout to the brilliant keyboard, we want to live this dream.

Look at your desk, now look at the picture, now back at your desk, don?t you want to work at a setup like the one in the photo?

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Netflix has 61% of digital movie units, Apple at 4%

Digital video now makes up one quarter of all home video volume. Netflix's share of digital movie units, downloaded and streamed, reached 61 percent between January 2011 and February 2011. This was followed by Comcast in second place at 8 percent, and a three-way tie for third at 4 percent among DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, and Apple.

The data is for the home video market in the US, collected by The NPD Group. The company surveyed over 10,600 people to determine how Americans are consuming video online via subscription streaming, video-on-demand (Internet and cable), as well as digital movies purchased/rented online.

NPD analysts believe the huge gap is not just due to price but due to overall experience. Apple's store has a much wider selection of up-to-date titles, but Netflix offers an $8 per month streaming option and a better "overall shopping experience," according to respondents.

"Sales of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs still drive most home-video revenue, but VOD and other digital options are now beginning to make inroads with consumers," Russ Crupnick, entertainment industry analyst for NPD, said in a statement. "Overwhelmingly digital movie buyers do not believe physical discs are out of fashion, but their digital transactions were motivated by the immediate access and ease of acquisition provided by streaming and downloading digital video files."

Last year, Netflix saw its biggest year yet, adding 7.7 million subscribers and passing the 20 million subscriber mark. This year, the company is considering an overseas expansion.

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Mormon Politicians From Utah Feel Tea Party Heat

But in the muscular arena of Tea Party and so-called Sept. 12 groups that have surged into dominance in Utah over the last year, places like Coalville and the Smith house have become unlikely stations for politicians to come kiss the ring.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, a six-term Republican who faces re-election next year, has been among Ms. Smith?s supplicants, seeking the endorsement of her group, the STAR Forum, for Save The American Republic, and others like it. Ms. Smith is not sold on Mr. Hatch yet, and she does not think too many others in the Tea Party community are either.

?I don?t think he?s winning over anyone,? Ms. Smith said, smiling sweetly on a couch in her living room decorated with patriotic bunting and a giant engraved plaque of the Declaration of Independence.

In addition to Mr. Hatch, two other Republicans closely associated with Utah are likely to be in the national spotlight next year ? Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, both possible presidential candidates.

And the three, Mormons all, are facing varying degrees of revolt where they might least like it or expect it ? in their own backyard among mostly Mormon Tea Party members who are pushing for still more conservative fortitude.

?We oppose all three,? said David Kirkham, a businessman who helped found one of Utah?s first Tea Party groups.

Mr. Romney, who has family roots in Utah, blazed further into local life with his leadership of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. But he has since been besmirched, Mr. Kirkham and others said, by his involvement with a Massachusetts health care overhaul that is anathema to many Tea Party members who see it as a model for the Obama plan passed last year.

Mr. Huntsman took a moderate stance on many social issues as governor and also supported carbon emissions cap-and-trade legislation to reduce heat-trapping gases, another Tea Party no-no.

?On a good day, he?s a socialist,? said Darcy Van Orden, a co-founder of Utah Rising, a clearinghouse group, referring to Mr. Huntsman. ?On a bad day, he?s a communist.?

As for Mr. Hatch, Mr. Kirkham said, ?We have exactly the same game plan as we did last time with Bennett.?

That would be former Senator Bob Bennett, a Republican whose long political career was unceremoniously ended in 2010 when Mr. Kirkham and other Tea Party-inspired delegates swept into control at the party?s state convention.

In a few quick votes, the delegates denied Mr. Bennett?s renomination. One of their favorites, Mike Lee, a former clerk for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the Supreme Court, ultimately won the general election.

That event, many Republicans here say, set the stage for everything leading to the 2012 election. The Tea Party showed it could throw a knockout punch, and the candidates the Tea Party now opposes saw how it was done and are thus forearmed.

Mr. Hatch, in particular, is taking pre-emptive action by meeting with as many Tea Party groups as he can, said his campaign manager, David Hansen.

?Do I think we?ve made progress? Absolutely,? Mr. Hansen said. ?They may not agree with everything he has done, but they appreciate that he is listening to them and talking to them.?

In at least 25 to 30 meetings over the last year, by Mr. Hansen?s count, Mr. Hatch has ?emphasized things they believe in and he has supported,? Mr. Hansen said. ?It?s an ongoing process; it will continue.?

A spokeswoman for Mr. Romney declined to comment about Tea Party criticism in Utah. A person close to Mr. Huntsman, who announced his resignation as American ambassador to China in January, said he was not commenting on his future until he returned from China.

What amplifies the Tea Party?s role is that Utah, more than perhaps any other state, is dominated by the Republican Party. No Democrat has won statewide office here since a two-term attorney general in the 1990s. That means Tea Party activists do not need to think much, or talk much, about the Democrats, who can largely be dismissed as irrelevant; they can thus concentrate fully on remaking the Republican Party from within, by shaping it and handpicking candidates.

The prospect of two Mormon candidates for president and a bruising Senate fight could give those homegrown views an even louder voice, said the Republican Party?s state chairman, Thomas E. Wright. ?Every Utahan?s voice is going to be heard across the nation,? Mr. Wright said.

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Party Seeks One Voice. Schumer Steps Forward.

Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, long admired, and reviled, for his uncanny ability to make it all about Chuck, has worked his way into the party?s No. 3 job in the Senate, where he puts his promotional talents to work on behalf of all his Democratic colleagues.

With his party still trying to regain its footing after big Republican gains in November, and with many of his fellow Democrats already worried about holding on to their seats in 2012, he has been given responsibility for sharpening the Democratic message from Capitol Hill and marrying it more effectively to the policies the party is trying to advance.

?Usually, things change when you don?t do so well,? Mr. Schumer said. ?My job, our job as a caucus, is to focus on the average family, to show them we actually care about them.?

This will be accomplished, he contends, through the three P?s: ?policy, politics and press.?

But leading a disparate group of Senate Democrats ? a group at war with the emboldened House Republicans and in search of cover from the White House ? is proving a challenge.

Mr. Schumer must weigh the hopes and dreams of his most liberal members, who crave open ideological battle with Republicans, while watching the backs of moderates, who are pushing for their own deficit-reduction narrative.

?Getting everyone in the tent is hard,? said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri. ?Getting everyone to speak with one voice is near impossible.?

What is more, Mr. Schumer?s attempt to verbally smack around Republicans has frequently been cold-shouldered by the White House, where President Obama has been repositioning himself more toward the political center and shying away from inflaming the budget fight. White House aides have more often than not tossed sheets of ice on the fairly enormous hill that Mr. Schumer climbs in leading his caucus forward.

The Democrats are clear that they want fewer cuts to discretionary spending than Republicans are demanding, but they have yet to settle on what level of reductions they would accept. There are rifts within the party over taxes, addressing the long-term costs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, reining in agricultural subsidies and scaling back the war in Afghanistan.

?They seem to be pushing different agendas,? said Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California. ?I think they are getting ahead of themselves.?

When House Republicans offered up a short-term spending plan a few weeks ago, the press office run by Mr. Schumer and the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, rejected it out of hand, even though it largely mirrored White House ideas. Then the Senate quickly passed it, leaving the initial messaging looking more reflexive than considered, more defense than offense ? and defense is not the game Mr. Schumer best likes to play.

Mr. Schumer?s difficulties were foretold in December, days after he assumed his new post. As the House and Senate fought over the preservation of the Bush-era tax cuts on upper-income levels, Mr. Schumer pushed for a tax that would extend only to millionaires; the proposal fell flat, with the White House failing to support it.

Fast-forward to last Wednesday. Mr. Schumer gave a high-profile speech insisting that cuts to entitlement programs and tax increases be part of the spending bill discussion; hours later, a White House spokesman said that would not be happening. Mr. Schumer concedes that their paths diverge, but brushes off the idea that this is suboptimal. ?As long as we communicate,? he said, ?everything will work out.?

Over the last 72 hours, Mr. Schumer has shown up at news conferences and events to push the notion that House Republicans are pushing the federal budget off the rails. There he was Sunday on NBC?s ?Meet the Press? saying that Republicans will not compromise. On Monday, between zipping around New York, he issued a news release intended to fan the flames of that argument.

Tuesday morning he was on a conference call with Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan ? one of Mr. Schumer?s four public events ? ostensibly to talk about China?s hoarding of rare earth elements, but also attacking House conservatives for trying to attach policy initiatives to the short-term spending plan. ?The conservative Republicans in the House are showing themselves to be the Scott Walker Republicans,? Mr. Schumer said, referring to the governor of Wisconsin. They are trying to ?shoot for the moon on a wish list of far-right policy measures.?

For many Senate Democrats, Mr. Schumer?s new role has been a great gift for a group still smarting from missteps that dinged the body?s reputation in recent years.

Last year, at a Democratic retreat, junior senators, led by Al Franken of Minnesota, lit into Mr. Reid and the White House about being left out of policy and strategy discussions, even though they helped secure the party?s majority.

?I?ve really appreciated how he?s made our decision-making process much more participatory,? Mr. Franken said of Mr. Schumer in an e-mail. ?Knowing that our primary focus is on how our work here affects our constituents back home, he also has made a noticeable effort to ensure that we have clear information on how each policy affects our state specifically.?

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