Presentation by Paul McDonald (Gmail) at the #inboxlove conference

1. Paul McDonald - Product Manager
pmcdonald@google.com

2. Communication is changing...
Email is dead, long live email!
July 2003 - "Email is dead" - theinquirer.net
July 2007 - "E-mail is Dead to Kids, Use Social Networks
Instead" - Techcrunch
Mar. 2009 - "9 reasons why email is dead" - PCMag.com
Oct. 2009 - "The end of the Email Era" WSJ.com
Jan. 2011 - "The decline of web-based email" - NYtimes

3. But is email dead? Not yet...
Active Users Read Email
Gmail mail related
metrics show strong
growth over the last
year.
Receive Email (Non Spam) Send Email (Non Spam) Web UI Users

4. If email is here to stay, how do you process it all?
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