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Google quietly took another step in their ongoing quest for (virtual) world domination with the launch of Mail Fetcher.

The new feature allows Gmail users to retrieve email - new and old - from other webmail services within the Gmail interface. For example, you could set up your Gmail account to also aggregate mail from your Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts - or any other email address that supports POP3 access.

What does this mean for you? It means that you should:

1. Add a Gmail address to your test list if you haven’t already. As this feature catches on - as it most certainly will - more and more
   of your contacts will ultimately receive and read their email in the
   Gmail interface. (For example, johnqcontact@yahoo.com really reads his email through his Gmail account.)
2. Design carefully and take particular care to ensure that your email communications render appropriately in Gmail.

Bronto recently launched Brontopedia - an internal wiki designed to facilitate online collaboration and document management.

We kicked off the program with an MTV-esque “Pimp My Page” contest in which all Bronto employees “pimped” their user page in the style of a MySpace or Facebook profile. Some built pages with funny pictures, quotes, and “statistics” - such as “Consecutive Days Wearing Same Blue Jeans: 5″ - while others flooded their page with various RSS feeds from del.icio.us, YouTube, and NetFlix.

The individuals with the top 3 pages according to a team vote took home handsome cash prizes. The winners were:

1st place: Thad Parker - Director of Engineering. Thad hilariously lampooned Matt Williamson, Bronto’s Director of Sales.

2nd place: Matt Habel - Software Engineer. From Habel’s page - “They were going to release a Chuck Norris edition of Clue, but the
answer always turns out to be “Chuck Norris. In The Library. With a
Roundhouse Kick.”

3rd place: Haley Robinson - Finance Associate. Haley developed an elaborate point system for executing various office shenanigans. For example, you get 5 points for hiding Adam’s Texas Pete in his work drawer.

The winners, from left, Habel, Thad, and Haley.

The individual that created the “worst” page - according to each voter’s interpretation of what comprises a “bad” wiki user page - took home an extra week of kitchen duty.

The loser: DJ Waldow - Senior Account Manager. While very funny, DJ’s page lost because it trashed everyone else’s.

When asked about his ignominious defeat, DJ replied “I got jobbed.”

Internet Retailer recently identified Bronto customer Chiasso.com as one of the “Best of the Web” for 2007.

Congratulations to Jerry and crew at Chiasso!

We’ll begin sending mail via the new IP addresses this week.  If you haven’t already, make sure to add the new IPs to your corporate trusted senders list:

216.27.63.2 - 216.27.63.254  (or 216.27.63.*)

If you have questions about the new addresses or questions about
whitelisting Bronto at your organization, submit a support request from
your account or give us a call at 888.276.6861 x 2.