Bacn

 Overview
Bacn (pronounced bacon) is an e-mail term used to describe e-mail that is somewhere between the world of Spam and personal e-mails. It is usually defined as "e-mail that you want, but not right now" examples would include notifications from social networking sites, RSS feeds, bills, etc. E-mail that you have chosen/signed up to receive but is also not personal.

The term was coined at the Podcamp Pittsburg 2 in 2007 and has since caught on in the world of cyberculture (I hadn't heard about it until 2 hours ago, but so it goes). Bacn is becoming ever more prevalent in our inboxes, Unsubscribe.com has claimed that in 2010 over 27 million bacn e-mails were sent daily.

In order to combat this phenomenon Google has just released an update to Gmail which allows your inbox to be analyzed and your bacn e-mails to be labeled as such. Other companies with e-mail software are also making efforts to help separate these messages from both Spam and your personal e-mail. Bacn is even becoming a focuses in the business world as advertisers and business owners try to maximize the efficiency and appeal of these messages.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacn http://lifehacker.com/#!291688/how-do-you-handle-bacn http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bacn http://www.bacn2.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/bacn/ http://podcamppittsburgh.com/

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