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Yahoo! Mail goes to infinity and beyond

As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, I’m the lucky one who gets to announce that we will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. To mark the occasion, I checked in with David Nakayama, our group vice president of engineering, for some perspective on this milestone. In case that name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the developer of RocketMail, one of the world’s first webmail products, which Yahoo! acquired and relaunched as Yahoo! Mail in 1997.Dave reminisced: “I remember getting in a room to plan our RocketMail launch over a decade ago and worrying that our original plan of a 2MB quota wasn’t enough, and that we needed to be radical and DOUBLE the storage to 4MB per account! It’s ironic that I routinely send and receive individual mail attachments bigger than that now. Our total capacity for mail accounts back then was 200GB for all of our customers. At Yahoo!, we’re now receiving more inbound mail than that every 10 minutes.”

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10 reasons why Silicon Valley is the land of entrepreneurs With Youtube Video

Who would believe the area of Santa Clara, the self-proclaimed capital city of Silicon Valley, used to be famous for its prunes before the 1940s? In 1939: 2 young engineers, Bill Hewlett & David Packard, started to develop an oscillator in a garage. Silicon Valley was born.

While wondering about the reasons for this phenomenon in the Paris metro a couple days ago, I wrote on my metro ticket the 10 most relevant-in-my-opinion variables explaining the success of Silicon Valley. I could hardly read what I had put down, but it should more or less boil down to this list: Read the more »

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