SNARF: Microsoft tells you who your friends are
A new utility from
According to an article on CNet News, SNARF works by indexing your email, putting your best friends (or “most important correspondents” perhaps) first, based on how often people correspond with particular content in the body of a message and how often you reply to another person’s correspondence.
Marc Smith, Microsoft’s in-house sociologist, says
If my dog can tell who strangers are, apart from friends…my e-mail reader should be able to do the same.
It seems likely that this social sorting technique will one day find its way into
CNet also carries some screenshots of the experimental app.
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December 3rd, 2005 at 2:50 am
SNARF a wonderful program — and if you have a Mobile device there’s another great “hidden” Microsoft program called:
Outlook Mobile Manager (OMM) which “can prioritize your messages and makes smart decisions about when to send email. OMM also sends calendar reminders, task reminders, and an Outlook Today style daily summary all to your wireless device.”
http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/omm/default.aspx
December 6th, 2005 at 9:23 am
[...] Set a timer on a received message to appear as unread again at a future date (for waiting for and “must do” messages) The first is very much what Microsoft’s new SNARF utility promises to do. [...]