If you are more comfortable with a three-pane layout of your desktop e-mail client, you’re going to dig this. Google just released a new Labs feature called “Preview Pane” which allows you to view and reply to e-mails while navigating your inbox.

Gmail users can enable this feature by visiting Labs from the Mail Settings icon in the upper righthand corner of your mail screen. 

My welcome email from 2011 Yelp Elite Squad

A recent study conducted by ExactTarget, an e-mail and social media marketing company, focused on the differences between “subscribers,” “fans” and “followers”, as well as the type of permission-based content that users want to receive through them.

A few interesting insights:

• More than 50% of U.S. online consumers check their e-mail before visiting other websites when they start the day.
• Facebook is the first destination for 11% of U.S. online consumers.
• Of daily Facebook users, 69% “Like” at least one company or brand.
• 68% of daily Twitter users follow at least one brand on the service.
• 43% of all American Internet users are either fans or followers of at least one brand on Twitter or Facebook.