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	Oddpost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oddpost is a pay-for webmail service that pioneered the use of JavaScript to mimic a desktop mail application, the first notable foray into using AJAX methodologies.
		Oddpost also has the design philosophy of making the interface invisible.
		Oddpost is also known for its humorous blog entries about feature additions, bug fixes, and all random musings about Oddpost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oddpost (351 words)

	ITworld.com - Yahoo buys Oddpost e-mail company
		Oddpost will be working on "a new, advanced Yahoo Mail product" that incorporates Oddpost's technology, the posting said, adding that a date for the new product has not yet been set.
		Oddpost was founded about three years ago and has 10 employees, all of whom now work for Yahoo, said Toni Schneider, Oddpost's chief executive.
		Oddpost's posting to its users about the acquisition is in the form of an FAQ (frequently asked questions).
	www.itworld.com /Tech/2428/040712yahoooddpost/pfindex.html (612 words)

	The New Road to Riches - October 1, 2004
		Oddpost's story features many of the standard plot devices of tech startup triumph: the clever spotting of an overlooked opportunity, the crashing server—the server always crashes—the plucky victory in the end.
		Oddpost is part of an emerging breed of here-today, bought-tomorrow startups that are sprouting with minimal funding, flowering briefly, and being gobbled up by far bigger companies.
		Oddpost founders Lamb and Diamond and CEO Schneider are now comfortably ensconced in upper-level jobs at Yahoo and are worth several million bucks each.
	money.cnn.com /magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/10/01/8186689 (3136 words)

	Red Herring Blog: Yahoo moves into new space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The terms of Yahoo's acquisition of Web-based email provider Oddpost are rumored to be "generous," according to the scuttlebutt appearing on various Silicon Valley insider blogs.
		Oddpost is the latest arrow in Yahoo's quiver as it prepares to go head-to-head with Google for the soul of public email.
		Oddpost is a sign that this kind of consolidation is where investors will be playing for the next couple of years.
	blog.redherring.com /MT/archives/main/000302.html (587 words)

	Wired News: Frugal Oddpost Is Downturn Baby
		Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO 2003 technology conference, which begins Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz., invited Oddpost to the exclusive event in part because she likes Oddpost e-mail -- and in part because of the founders' chutzpah.
		Oddpost is also developing an online calendar that founders say is a significant improvement over clunky calendars from rivals.
		Oddpost is in a particularly tough spot: After using free services for years, few consumers are willing to pay for e-mail.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,57697,00.html (969 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Technology \| Technology \| Review: Oddpost
		The Oddpost team will be working on the portal's new email product - its response to the pending launch of Google's Gmail.
		Oddpost has the look and feel of Outlook, but works within a web browser.
		Oddpost includes a news reader, so you can check dozens of newsfeeds at the same time as checking your email (just as NewsGator works with Outlook).
	technology.guardian.co.uk /online/story/0,3605,1261167,00.html (149 words)

	PCWorld.com - Yahoo Buys Oddpost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Oddpost was founded about three years ago and has ten employees, all of whom now work for Yahoo, says Toni Schneider, Oddpost CEO.
		Oddpost unveiled its service early in 2003 at the Demo conference.
		Oddpost's posting to its users about the acquisition is in the form of an FAQ.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,116858,00.asp (656 words)

	Koranteng's Toli: On rich web applications, AlphaBlox and Oddpost
		I talked to the Oddpost folks a few times last year; they were happy to hear that their first born babies were still being tended to - commiserating with me about some of the hacks they had had to implement earlier.
		If the Oddpost code is anything like the AlphaBlox code I had to modify, they could probably jump start their porting effort considerably by using a lot the code I had to write or certainly the 10 or so common design patterns I encountered in doing this work.
		GMail and Oddpost follow the same pattern and it is the incremental rendering and caching that distinguishes them in their performance characteristics and makes them 'feel' like desktop apps.
	koranteng.blogspot.com /2004/07/on-rich-web-applications-alphablox-and.html (2869 words)

	An Interview with Ethan Diamond \| unraveled
		Oddpost debuted last year to a great fanfare in the web design community.
		In Oddpost, we present you with the ten or so functions you use 90% of the time, a blinking cursor, and that’s it.
		ED: Businesses who want to run their own Oddpost web mail server in conjunction with an existing IMAP server will be happy to know that that product just entered beta and is available at www.deerfield.com.
	unraveled.com /archives/2003/07/an_interview_with_ethan_diamond (1666 words)

	PC Magazine: Oddpost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Oddpost supports standalone POP and IMAP clients, too, but the virtual one is quite amazing.
		Oddpost also seemed the fastest in our anecdotal speed tests—faster even than Mailblocks—perhaps because it dynamically refreshes only parts of its virtual client window.
		Oddpost uses the type of spam solution that will prove the least bothersome to your contacts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200307/ai_ziff43717 (400 words)

	Oddpost Unveils Web-based Email Service That Works Like a Desktop Application
		Oddpost, on the other hand, lets users organize email via drag and drop, preview messages instantly, use address auto-completion, shortcut keys and everything else expected in a desktop email program.
		Oddpost includes a new spam solution that allows users to eliminate unwanted email with up to 99% accuracy.
		About Oddpost Oddpost is based in San Francisco and was founded in late 2000 by leading experts in Web-based application development.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/02-16-2003/0001892089 (358 words)

	Yahoo acquires Oddpost to bolster e-mail \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Existing Oddpost members will be migrated to Yahoo when the portal's next Web mail update is introduced, according to the document.
		Oddpost also allows people to aggregate news feeds, share photos and compose e-mail without constantly refreshing a page as Yahoo and other free e-mail services currently require.
		In its statement, Oddpost said existing accounts would be extended until the Yahoo service is launched, but indicated that it would not accept any more new users.
	news.com.com /2100-1038_3-5266019.html (1193 words)

	Gadgetophile - small, electronic, and highly useful… » Farewell Oddpost
		Oddpost is going offline as of 30th March 2006.
		I’m a bit gutted that Oddpost users were promised free Yahoo Premium accounts, but the reality is one year of free Yahoo Premium, and US$20 per year thereafter.
		A bit of a gyp, but I guess I was paying for Oddpost before they got acquired anyway, and I can go free if I’m happy with ads (which I’m not).
	www.gadgetophile.com /farewell-oddpost (351 words)

	davidtemkin.com: Behold, Oddpost gets acquired by Yahoo
		Also worth checking out are Marc Canter, who sees Yahoo taking a leadership position on user experience, as well as Dave Winer, who makes the point that "Google has competition on elegance of user interface." This is just great news for the RIA space.
		Laszlo and Oddpost both got started in late 2000, during the downturn; we both showed at Demo 2003 and in fact had adjacent booths there.
		If you haven't seen it, by the way, I suggest checking out Oddblog, the Oddpost blog, which features a truly entertaining writing style and hopefully won't be going away.
	www.davidtemkin.com /mtarchive/000005.html (260 words)

	Yahoo Buys E-Mail Startup
		In a message to subscribers posted late Friday, Oddpost Inc. said it had been bought by Yahoo and that its development team was focusing it energy on building new additions to Yahoo Mail.
		Oddpost's $30-a-year e-mail service focuses on an e-mail interface with functionality that is similar to that of desktop applications such as Microsoft Outlook, such as the ability to drop and drag messages.
		Oddpost didn't specify when its enhancements to Yahoo Mail would be ready but said its subscribers would be migrated over to Yahoo once the revamped service is launched.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1622407,00.asp?kc=EWNKT0209KTX1K0100440 (1306 words)

	Oddpost, DHTML, and off-line Web Applications (by Jeremy Zawodny)
		But since they're now part of the collective, I had the opportunity to meet with a few of the Oddpost folks on Friday.
		Aside from the getting an idea of how all their server-side stuff works (it's a classic example of "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" and I love that aspect of it), which was the real point of the meeting, I got to actually see the product first hand.
		Presumably, if Oddpost's architecture is similar to Gmail's (XmlHttpRequest to fetch small snippets data from the server combined with JavaScript DOM manipulations) then there are no fundamental reasons why it shouldn't work in Mozilla, Safari or Opera.
	jeremy.zawodny.com /blog/archives/002241.html (1331 words)

	Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Why Yahoo buying ODDpost is so important
		Oddpost turned the idea of what you could do with a browser upside down, by producing a clone of Microsoft Outlook in JavaScript and DHTML running in MSIE.
		Sorry the announcement comes at such an awkard time, everyone in the tech press must be getting in their cars and driving to the beach or the mountains.
		Congrats to the Oddpost guys, and their users and investors, and congrats to Google for getting some new worthwhile competition.
	blog.broadbandmechanics.com /2004/07/why_yahoo_buyin (897 words)

	Fool.com: Odd Times at Yahoo! [Motley Fool Take] July 13, 2004
		Oddpost, till now, has been a fee-based email service, which supplied innovative features to its users.
		The features Oddpost brings to the table could truly modernize Yahoo!'s Web-based email, and they might even convince Internet mail cheapskates to pony up for premium versions.
		For example, speaking of where the Internet is going, one of Oddpost's most interesting features may be blog aggregation.
	fool.com /News/mft/2004/mft04071366.htm?...&logvisit=y&npu=y (452 words)

	nPost.com Interview with Toni Schneider, CEO of Oddpost.com
		Oddpost is a software company, and we have developed a technology framework that allows us to run web based software applications that perform just like a desktop application.
		We have a consumer subscription service where users can sign up for individual email accounts for $30 per year, and we have an enterprise offering that is a license software package that allows corporations to use our email client as a front end to an existing email system.
		If a corporation already has an email system, and is not happy with their web based access to that email, they can license Oddpost and plug into their existing email server.
	www.npost.com /interview.jsp?intID=INT00051 (1503 words)

	YMail Beta Screenshots (Oddpost and Gmail too) « Buzzword Compliant
		Oddpost was a standout webmail company whose primary claim to fame was a super slick AJAX (but back in the old days of 2004, we didn’t call it that) interface.
		One big issue with OddPost was that it only worked with Internet Explorer (they were bought largely before the Firefox explosion had taken hold).
		Oddpost supports POP email, but I choose to keep my email web access only so I can keep my email consistent wherever I go work, school, home, library, ect.
	www.buzzwordcompliant.net /?p=2 (4148 words)

	Oddpost review by PC Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While some companies treat Web-based e-mail as a lesser cousin of the desktop clients, Oddpost aims to be every bit as capable as a desktop client.
		Oddpost has the most businesslike interface of the Web mail services in this roundup.
		Oddpost accounts can also be accessed via IMAP, so you can use a regular Windows mail client such as Outlook or Eudora as well.
	www.pcmag.com /article2/0,1895,1921636,00.asp (405 words)

	Yahoo! acquires Oddpost (kottke.org)
		Both Gmail and Oddpost use lots of Javascript on the browser to make their Web apps work and feel more like desktop apps.
		Oddpost only works on Windows right now in IE, at least that is what I've heard.
		Oddpost were the first out with the heavy javascript based UI if I recall.
	www.kottke.org /remainder/04/07/5974.html (736 words)

	Yahoo to overhaul webmail, finally integrating Oddpost
		Trust me, as a long time user of Oddpost, this is a Good Thing.
		Not sure how they're going to integrate ads and obnoxious content, but the Oddpost interface is slick.
		I tried out Oddpost before Yahoo bought it...it was actually very cool.
	digg.com /links/Yahoo_to_overhaul_webmail,_finally_integrating_Oddpost (423 words)

	Oddpost makes me sad
		Oddpost used to treat RSS feeds just like an e-mail folder.
		I started to download Feed Demon which is rated as the best desktop reader but then I realized the problem with that is that I read both at home and at work and anything I've read at work I want marked as already read when I get home.
		Currently I'm trying Bloglines and hoping Oddpost fixes theirs back to the way it was.
	greggman.com /edit/editheadlines/2004-06-24b.htm\|template=print\|lang... (934 words)

	Google Community: Yahoo Acquires Oddpost, to Compete with Gmail
		I feel the acqusition of oddpost by MS is second type.
		however the point is that acquring of oddpost may be to kill the competition.
		oddpost isnt that good of a webmail service dut to me using it for a while on a website of mine.
	www.googlecommunity.com /ntopic390.html (579 words)

	There's nothing odd about the slickness of Oddpost - Network World
		Oddpost's mail services will retrieve mail from up to six existing POP3 and IMAP accounts as well as provide you with your own Oddpost address (such as whatever@oddpost.com).
		Oddpost supports importing your own address book; you can customize your 'from' and 'reply-to' addresses, and you can send and receive attachments of up to 10M byte.
		As the company puts it: "Oddpost costs a mere $30 per year, which is probably less than you spend per month for lousy c-ll p-one serv--e.
	www.networkworld.com /newsletters/web/2004/0412web1.html (751 words)

	Yahoo Buys Oddpost for Upcoming Products
		Email application Oddpost is "delighted" to no longer be accepting new accounts, the company announced, as of July 9th.
		After the product's release, current Oddpost accounts will be "migrated." "Until then, all Oddpost subscriptions will be extended, free of charge," the company says.
		Oddpost claims to be "thrilled" about the upcoming changes.
	www.webpronews.com /insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20040712YahooBuysOddpostforUpcomingProducts.html (282 words)

	News: Oddpost Unveils Web-based Email Service That Works Like a Desktop App
		Oddpost today introduced a breakthrough email product that combines the speed and usability of a desktop email application with the available-from-anywhere convenience of Web-based email.
		The Oddpost email service is based on a technology platform developed by Oddpost to enable a new breed of hybrid Web/desktop software applications.
		Oddpost is based in San Francisco and was founded in late 2000 by leading experts in Web-based application development.
	www.designinteract.com /news_d/11143.html (467 words)

	EmailDiscussions.com - PC Mag rates Oddpost, Hushmail Premium and MailBlocks!
		Oddpost is very unique and easy to use; I would consider this company a serious competitor for my business if they were compatible with a Mac or Unix type O/S. I was very surprised when I read the review that this very serious restriction is not even mentioned.
		Then again Oddpost seems to be concentrating on enterprise licensing.
		I think the Oddpost interface is excellent, and wonder if the GUI is the deciding factor vs. lots of (maybe arcane for some) techie functionality.
	www.emailaddresses.com /forum/showthread.php?s=3422887ede6ae26520b0ad1965df3d96&threadid=14006 (1320 words)

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