Web email

[poornima lagadapati]

In December 1995, just a few years after the Web was “invented,” Sabeer Bhatia
and Jack Smith visited the Internet venture capitalist Draper Fisher Jurvetson and
proposed developing a free Web-based e-mail system. The idea was to give a free
e-mail account to anyone who wanted one, and to make the accounts accessible
from the Web. In exchange for 15 percent of the company, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson financed Bhatia and Smith, who formed a company called Hotmail.
With three full-time people and 14 part-time people who worked for stock options,
they were able to develop and launch the service in July 1996. Within a month
after launch, they had 100,000 subscribers. In December 1997, less than 18
months after launching the service, Hotmail had over 12 million subscribers and
was acquired by Microsoft, reportedly for $400 million. The success of Hotmail is
often attributed to its “first-mover advantage” and to the intrinsic “viral marketing”
of e-mail. (Perhaps some of the students reading this book will be among the new
entrepreneurs who conceive and develop first-mover Internet services with inherent
viral marketing.)
Web e-mail continues to thrive, becoming more sophisticated and powerful every
year. One of the most popular services today is Google’s gmail, which offers giga￾bytes of free storage, advanced spam filtering and virus detection, e-mail encryption
(using SSL), mail fetching from third-party e-mail services, and a search-oriented inter￾face. Asynchronous messaging within social networks, such as Facebook, has also
become popular in recent years

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

In December 1995, just a few years after the Web was “invented,” Sabeer Bhatia
and Jack Smith visited the Internet venture capitalist Draper Fisher Jurvetson and
proposed developing a free Web-based e-mail system. The idea was to give a free
e-mail account to anyone who wanted one, and to make the accounts accessible
from the Web. In exchange for 15 percent of the company, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson financed Bhatia and Smith, who formed a company called Hotmail.
With three full-time people and 14 part-time people who worked for stock options,
they were able to develop and launch the service in July 1996. Within a month
after launch, they had 100,000 subscribers. In December 1997, less than 18
months after launching the service, Hotmail had over 12 million subscribers and
was acquired by Microsoft, reportedly for $400 million. The success of Hotmail is
often attributed to its “first-mover advantage” and to the intrinsic “viral marketing”
of e-mail. (Perhaps some of the students reading this book will be among the new
entrepreneurs who conceive and develop first-mover Internet services with inherent
viral marketing.)
Web e-mail continues to thrive, becoming more sophisticated and powerful every
year. One of the most popular services today is Google’s gmail, which offers giga￾bytes of free storage, advanced spam filtering and virus detection, e-mail encryption
(using SSL), mail fetching from third-party e-mail services, and a search-oriented inter￾face. Asynchronous messaging within social networks, such as Facebook, has also
become popular in recent years

To create an email account:
Log in to the one.com control panel.
Click on the Email tile to go to mail administration.
Scroll down and click New account.
Enter the new email address that you want to create, and a password for the email account.
Click Create account.