April 25, 2024

Facebook ‘experiment’ lets select users pay to have messages routed directly to a stranger’s inbox

Get ready to have your preconceived notions of email destroyed. In a Facebook blog post today, the company has gone to great lengths to bury the lede -- which, essentially, says that it's experimenting with the idea of letting non-connected users pay in order to have a message routed to one's inbox instead of that ill-fated "Other" folder. … [Read more...]

Reduced fares experiment “inconclusive”

Looks like you won't be getting another break on fares to travel over the Golden Ears Bridge for awhile. The results of an experiment with lower fares are in. The hope was Translink would attract more people to the new bridge during off peak times, in the evenings and on weekends.  Fares were lowered by 30 percent during those times in April … [Read more...]