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Email as a way of life

People email a lot. It’s amazing to think that in the last 10 years, email has become the main way to reach lots of people — better than letters for sure and often better than telephone calls.

As we started working on creating Peek, we thought a lot about how people communicate these days. Of all the things people do on the Internet — and these days it’s lots of stuff — email is usually the first reason they got online and still the #1 thing they do online. Research we saw from the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently gave us an updated view on something that has been true for a while: email is the #1 thing people do online and it’s still growing. 60% of people who use the Internet do email daily or more.

Some other folks who read this research were impressed that “web search” was catching up (also these folks). So were we — but we were more impressed that emailing was way, way more frequently used than all the other stuff!

Email is really central to the way people communicate — and the time they spend on it is the proof that it matters. So then why do most people have to wait till the end of the day, or until they get off work, or until they are back home sitting in their den to get on email…?

We think we know the reason.  And Peek is going to fix it.

3 Comments

1. I hope this thing does MS Exchange email as well as the standard gmail, yahoo, etc. stuff. If it only did the standard web email then it wouldn’t be so compelling.

   Comment by keith — August 22, 2008 @ 10:38 am

2. Hey Keith - initially Peek will support dozens of the most popular personal email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, etc. We’ll be adding additional functionality in the future and will consider Exchange support. Thanks for stopping by to learn more about Peek!

   - Jeremy
   Peek Marketing

   Comment by jeremy — August 25, 2008 @ 9:34 pm

3. Just received my Peek and had it in use within minutes. On my unit, the envelope icon at the top-left flashes blue for a split second every 12-13 seconds. I was hoping that it would stay illuminated or flash along with a beep. Also the vibrate mode is very weak and the highest e-mail received audible alert is difficult to hear. Seniors, a terrific target market for the Peek, may have problems with the aforementioned. Hope you can improve on that in future versions or updates. Other than that, I’m enjoying mine tremendously.

   Les A.

   Comment by Les Abbey — September 10, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

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