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It’ll be cool if Google tells the publishers about it or at least clarifies about that how are they selecting the sources of the related pages section of the Gmail sidebar.

虽然网络一直蓬勃地发展，但在网络上充分地相信别人，总是有危险的。但我希望从买这个手机之后，我的家人可以对我多一些放心。同样是手机，我的索爱J300C去年买的时候花了不到700元。今年遇到的朋友们都劝我，该换了；智勇买了黑莓，不到600元，也和我炫耀~~。不是拿不出换手机的钱，只是缺乏需求。而在火车上，我居然发现Gmail居然有专门给索爱用的客户端，实在是惊讶。最近我们即将在HDU引入一个索爱的新项目，说白了就是拿学生来做小白鼠──不过我还是比较有欲望去体验下索爱的新业务的。连这个移动设备制造商也一头扎到学生中去，感叹做学生真好阿。

Finalmente destacar la nueva opción que nos permite hacer búsquedas en Gmail directamente

Obvious, you might say. But is it? Think back to what Google did. And I mean before Adsense/Adwords, Gmail, and so on. They built search.

I’ve been a user of GrandCentral for a few months, so I’m excited to see that it’s been scooped up by Google and will become a part of its communication interface (expect to see some kind of a tie-in with GTalk and GMail).

LinkedIn and Paxlo have started to solve this by using the APIs of tools/services such as Hotmail, GMail, AOL etc to pull in you list of contacts.

Is email broken? I think most people would agree that the situation with email is at best uncomfortable, and at worst downright unusable for some people. I have been using email for about 20 years now, as I had an email account (via packet radio) way before the web was around (the Internet predates the web, anyone remember Gopher?). And at Universities we’ve had good email for a long time. I am lucky, as here at UWE we now have several levels of spam filtering that can be deployed, and I have my own at the client level as well. That means I see very little of the spam that some people get. I also use Gmail, and the spam filtering in that is excellent. But, for the majority of people, its a downright mess.

But, according to Markezine (in Japanese), Google Japan now offers mobile Gmail; namely, Docomo, AU, and Softbank. Yes, Softbank, which is strongly affiliated with Yahoo Japan. I used to afraid Google might be more integrated with AU; but glad to see they include docomo and rival softbank, even.

今天终于拿到了票，不过只有一张到沈阳的所以还要转下车，已经让老苍帮我提前买另一段的票，下车就可以跳上另一趟啦。刚刚尝试了手机版的Google，Gmail更酷些，甚至提供下载客户端JAVA软件，收发邮件的界面类似于用PC，相当的友好。不过个人感觉用网页收发快点，而且数据量也很小，打开一封信件只要3、4K的样子。5M的包月数据量，走到哪里都可以surf online了=)

La gente de Yahoo! Argentina actualizó el servicio de correo. Renovaron la imagen, estructura y funcionalidad. Creo que con estos cambios, pasa a ser el mejor servio de correo electrónico entre los 3 grandes… Por más que me gustaban Gmail (beta) y WL Mail (beta) el nuevo correo de Yahoo! se pasó! Para los que ya tenían una cuenta, cuando se logueen les va a aparecer una ventana invitándolos a probar la nueva versión o para decir que luego lo harán.

What you need to do: Sign up for a free account, easy if you have a gmail account,(if you don’t tell me, I will send you an invitation) or sign up with your other email ID. Then head over to the blogs you want to keep in touch with and find a button that says “FEED” (or subscribe) it’s usually bright orange and easy to find. Click on the link and follow onscreen instructions.

Google Apps for Your Domain service combines Google start page, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Page Creator. Includes Administrator’s control panel for managing services and users, you can add up to 100 users and make the services work with your own domain just like yourname@yourdomain.com and check your email with a Gmail interface. They either let you use a domain you’ve already registered or register a new domain for $10 a year.

La semana pasada Google introdujo unas cuantas características nuevas en Gmail, como la opción de poder hacer forward de una conversación entera y no de un solo correo.

Two recent developments in Google’s ever-expanding assortment of online applications show real promise: Google Docs and Spreadsheets and Picasa Web Albums.

Provate ad accedere alla vostra Gmail, e noterete la comparsa di una nuova voce nella barra laterale (vedi screenshot sotto, evidenziata da una freccia rossa).

I signed up tikirobot.net for “Google Apps for Your Domain” to see what all the fuss is about. It’s pretty cool! You get mail from Gmail, calendaring from Google Calendar, and Google Talk, and Google Page Creator, if you want that. The signup process is pretty painless, given what they’re providing.

They asked advice from a comedian, a girl who’s own video became a hit and professional viral marketers. They posted their video on YouTube, created a Gmail account and a MySace page to track interest.

Esta herramienta te permite usar tu cuenta de gmail como espacio en el web, simula un drive que se encuentra en my pc o my computer que dice gmail drive y alli arrastras o pegas los archivos y despues te manda el e-mail con los datos adjuntos a tu cuenta de gmail en la web, de alli le reenvias el correo a quien quieres que tenga el archivo.

i downloaded some extensions today that make my life ‘online’ so much easier. I have a gmail notifier, some gmail space where you can drag an image to a gmail ftp server & it’ll not only save it on the server but it’ll e-mail the image to your gmail acct, say if you want to save something for later.

In search of using calm technology in our project, we have come up with a friendly-looking stuffed-rabbit that speaks out your gmail, according to your preset preferences on the web. This way, you do not have to solely rely on your personal computer to retrieve your emails. The user has the freedom to preset the importance of his emails, and categorize them as well as be alerted when a new email is received. They can also have personal messages recorded, allowing for the voice to be transmitted. Essentially, we have chosen to use RF (Radio Frequency) as a method to transmit and receive data between the doll and the internet, and a set of walkie talkies to output the emails using Text-to-speech technology, while also allowing for the use of personal speech. Radio Frequency can travel up to 125ft and the walkie talkies transmit and receive up to a distance of 5 miles.

After surfing across Lifehacker’s post about how to easily get a Yahoo! Mail Beta account, I decided to take it for a spin. Following those directions was easy enough and I found myself with a new Y! Mail Beta account within 5 minutes. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I had seen screenshots of the fancy interface, which was purported to mimic a desktop email client, floating around the internet months before. Hopefully Yahoo has their eyes set on the future with mail beta and plan on setting themselves apart from Google and their popular Gmail.

I found the UI of Google lame, for sure it’s been well engineered with Ajax deftly applied, but the fundamental ‘what you can see on the screen’ Vs. ‘what you can’t and scroll / click for’ is all wrong. Ironic, since their email (Gmail) is drop-dead gorgeous.

Muss erst selbst ein wenig damit rumspielen. Ein erstes extrem positives Feedback, insbesondere zur GMail-Integration bei Techcrunch. Aber testet es am Besten selbst mal unter http://calendar.google.com.

Otras características interesantes incluyen la posibilidad de crear varios calendarios, la integración con Gmail (se pueden crear eventos o citas a partir de mensajes recibidos), la creación rápida de citas ("desayuno de trabajo tomorrow 1pm"), las áreas de discusión para cada evento, y la facilidad de invitar a otros usuarios a un evento, y pedir confirmaciones de asistencia.

Begininng today at http://www.google.com/calendar, is designed to make it easy for users to add entries. Gmail, Google’s mail service, has been modified to automatically recognize when messages mention an event so recipients can seamlessly add it to their calendar. Users can also add entries in simple text, such as “Coffee with Mom on Sunday at 11 a.m. at Cafe La Boheme,” eliminating the need to fill out forms.

Leaked news! Google’s next Gmail integration - CL2. Visit TechCrunch for some exlusive screenshots of Google Calendar.

Well as predicted, Calendars would be a big thing, in a previous post Google are just about to realease a calendar application called CL2 according to TechCrunch. The interface is similar to GMail so it'll get huge uptake as people are used to it. I guess the main question I have is can you get to it using a Web Service or API because you could use this calendar system to add, edit, insert and then pull out the information using RSS.

15) Check my spam. This isn’t compulsive but the reason my gmail account was suspended, I realize as I get at least 400 a day. Didn’t delete it for nine days, paid the price.

There’s a nifty little Firefox extension that lets you skin Gmail. Features include:

Another key quote

Google's corporate mantra, "Don't Be Evil," lost some of its resonance last month when it started a Chinese version of its popular search engine that doesn't provide links to content deemed unacceptable by the government.

points out the irony and double-speak that these companies use. It makes me ashamed to say that I use Yahoo! DSL and Gmail.

A Ajax application is an implementation where a user would have no expectation to be able to copy URLs and interact with the applicatoin using many of the web conventions. GMail is an excellent example of this. Should you choose to forward an email to a friend, you wouldn't copy the URL.

Today I wrote an e-mail to Becky using links, like I am doing during this very blog. It made writing the e-mail more fun because if I was unsure whether or not she would know of something or someone in my e-mail, I just linked to that thing or person. For example, I told her about a dream I had where Christopher Walken was a conquistador. I linked “Christopher Walken” to a page listing his works from Internet Movie Data Base, and conquistador to a web site about Spanish Conquistadors. Not only did writing in this way serve as a means of information, it was also fun. I linked normal words to online dictionary definitions and wikipedia entries. I wrote about a friend of ours and linked to a picture of her on my blog. I did it using gmail, but I bet other mail services enable linking as well. I strongly recommend that everyone try it.

Google announced the upcoming linking of GoogleTalk and GoogleMail, thus allowing Gmail users to quickly send instant messages to their contacts, without the need for a heavy, platform dependant chat application. A Gmail chat help page is available, showing basic features of this GoogleTalk integration within Gmail.

今天登出Gamil時才發現的這個消息..Google已把及時對談(chat)的功能加進Gmail當中..網路信箱中相當革命性的改進，誰會想到要讓信箱也能當通訊軟體般說話聊天？

With this technology new applications pop-up all around the web, made with Ajax, Atlas or Rails on Ruby. Some of the applications are already wellknown. Like GMail and Flickr.

email (person to person communications) -> hotmail -> gmail / live mail (nothing special here yet) -> ??

Google.vc is “very cool”, ha ha. It contains an implementation of Google X, the latest articles from the Google blog, the Google press center, and Yahoo Finance on Google, as well as the top ten gainers from Zeitgeist, the Gmail storage counter, top Google News stories, and some Google stock tracking. It even has a link you can email for a Gmail invite.

Isn’t it smashing? I’ve always wondered how my blog friends got theirs but never thought to ask. Now I chance upon this.

So maybe the time is coming for us to bid farewell to Google and its engine. To withdraw our accounts at Blogger.com. And to stop collecting our email on gmail. If the Internet is to bring genuine freedom to the world, we need to show the big companies that when it comes to the Internet, the World is bigger even than China!

I’ve had this installed for a couple of days now and it works pretty well! I tested it by posting a meme to my LJ account. Well, that didn’t turn out too well as it didn’t read the code for the meme correctly. Other than that, it’s pretty nifty for just basic blogging itself. You will get a small icon at the bottom of your browser window, next to the Gmail notifier, if you use it. You just click it and a small window will pop up which you can move up and down to still see the main Firefox window.

While everyone is busy implementing AJAX on every webpage they administer, and while I do not deny the beautiful simplicity and aesthetic design of an AJAX powered page (just look at how nice Gmail is to use, with instant marking of read/unread messages; or how nice the IPB 2.1 registration page is..) everyone seems to have forgotten something about the original foundations of AJAX. What it is, how it works, why it is not necessarily the best of ideas… In short, why it is best left well alone.

As previous posting, now I am trying to switch partially (to store) my email from Yahoo to Gmail. I believe that now many of us already have gmail account(s), but I think it is not too late if I would share this opportunity to others who doesn’t have. Currently I have many invitations remaining. Please leave your comment if you wish to get it one, subject to availability.

Moving e-mail from POP3 or IMAP to Gmail is not exactly an easy thing … nor particularly clean. It seems that, no matter what you try, there’s not a way to maintain the original message date/time stamping. So, transferred stuff ends up as “newer” than your new mail, if that makes any sense.

Ok. Yeah the whole @aol.com is a great reference. What about @gmail.com? If I was working with someone on something technical and they didn’t have a gmail account (even if they don’t use it) I would think they are kind of weird. In no way would I look ‘down’ at them because they had a Shared email account. Blogspot, typepad are fine services. Many well-know people use these services because it meets their needs.

looks pretty cool me thinks. PLUS with Google Calender for gmail coming veeery soon it’ll be a pretty mint service

设置分享文件的步骤非常的简单，你可以选择分享自己所有的附件，或者分享某一个label下面的附件，设置以后索引一下文件，别人便可以方便的下载，索引的操作系统每天会自动进行。 又有人要打Gmail的主意，创意当然是非常出色，可以充分的利用Gmail提供的空间，可是Google真的会看着自己的带宽白白浪费掉么？采取措施应该是个时间问题，很佩服G2G的勇气，但很难想像G2G能坚持多长时间。为了安全起见，建议用G2G之前先新建一个Gmail的账户，就算被封也不会有太大损失。

I know most of you didn’t enjoyed using MSN’s hotmail, instead you all prefer Yahoo! Mail or Google’s Gmail. This post is going to talk Hotmail, get the most of Hotmail. As you know that hotmail only gave 2MB of free space for non-US users, so, I’m going to talk about how to get 25MB instead of 2MB, later the 25MB of free space will become 250MB if you stay active in next 30 days.

gDisk: “...is software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet…”

I recently heard about a new webmail client from my friend Justin, who’s infatuated with it. RoundCube, a “browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface,” is the latest and greatest webmail client. It’s only in the alpha stage of development, which explains the jagged installation procedures, but that doesn’t mean it can’t kick some major squirrels. RoundCube is much smaller, scalable, and less resource intensive than another competitor, Zimbra, which weighs in at 150 megabytes. The interface is the stunning with lots of AJAX magic as well as user configurable via XHTML and CSS 2 skinning. I love RoundCube so much, I’m declaring it better than Gmail. Yes, you read that correctly. Hopefully by the end of this article you will have a fully functioning RoundCube webmail client on your server.

Today I stumbled upon Flock, which is basically Firefox's cousin that likes to keep in touch with everyone. It is built off of the same code (Mozilla) so you know its rock solid, though they underpromise. Well it is really good at helping you keep track of sites through starring, which makes a tag and a comment, and then you continue surfing. The star is like gmail, when you star a favorite message, though it uses del.icio.us (stores a list of your favorite sites online). The next thing that is cool is integrated flickr (online photo album) which goes best with the integrated blog, in my case blogger. You get a window that you can drag flickr images in, create tags for organization and searchability.

i thought the logo in the top left of my gmail google email account looked a little odd this morning

Let’s say, an online community where I can find a good friend, share my notion. You can find in at id-gmail (the largest online community in my country I even join). This community provide me with fresh idea, smile, good people, and many more. We also have our TAO.

I don’t know what is going on right now but email is arriving up to 22 hours late to my inbox. Well, 22 hours as of yet so it must have started at about 8pm last night. I would think there might be a reason for this if it were email going through my hosting provider or something, but this is gmail! I’m going crazy! I don’t know whether people aren’t emailing me or if the emails just haven’t gotten to my inbox.

Kayko (Parmeshwar) and I were discussing about Gmail and Yahoo interfaces … and both agreed that AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) components indeed provide Gmail the upper hand. In AJAX, only user interface elements that contain new information are updated; the rest of the user interface remains displayed without interruption. Also the request/response can be asynchronous, disconnecting user interaction from server interaction. As a result, the user can continue to use the application while the client program requests information from the server in the background. When new information arrives, only the related user interface portion is updated.

Meeting the Web 2.0 critereon Google Reader is in Beta, and probably will be for at least a year - so I'm not complaining - and with the development of this service we may see closer links emerging (and disappearing) between email and RSS. In other words, if gmail eventually offers RSS subscription services I can get rid of my email subscriptions, replace them with RSS subscriptions - and hopefully do what all readers I've seen so far don't do - archive content!

The main effect of the Gmail success is that the biggest companies that offers web-based email systems (like Microsoft and Yahoo) are working to improve their tools.

A little while ago I blogged about the fact that I now use Gmail for all my email and Bloglines for my RSS feeds. The thing I noted that was missing was the ability to write documents and sotre files online.

Well, that day has come. Take a look at ThinkFree office. It’s a nice set of MS office compatible apps that all run online through java. You get online storage thrown in too.

I was recently going through a nice list of Gmail Tips maintained by Jim Barr, it has a lot of useful tips out of which tip 25 tells you how you can create a label named "Unread" which automatically displays all the mails which are not yet read by you (not just in inbox or just in one label, but in your full email account). But when I tried creating such a label gmail didn't allow me, so I tried creating a label named "Unread2" and then tried renaming it to "Unread" that's when I got a message saying "System specific label names are not allowed. Please try another label".

Gmail now includes the feature to choose which email address you send from. I have been waiting for this feature for a while and its great if you want to use gmail for work etc. As pointed out by RIP’s devco.net there hasn’t been much press about it, but its a big bonus for many users.

Regarding to latest Ajax applications I believe in a few years average user will not need operating system any more. Even today we read mail over the web (Gmail, Outlook Web Access), we can write in a quite good editor (FreeTextBox, ...), there are available Excel like applications, calculators, image editing, document and image sharing applications... It is possible that in few years we would carry around only a key from where latest browser application will start up on any Internet connected computer.

To use Google Talk you need a Gmail account. If you don’t have one yet, leave a comment (and a valid email address to contact you) and I’ll send you an invite. I have about 50 Gmail invites left.

(a) ask for a ‘delete all from spam folder’ button in gmail

Social computing theories are about looking at the way computers are used and changing the design to better suit those needs. A good example of this is how google's gmail stores attachments. It would be easy to add 10000 more hard drives so everyone could have 1GB of email but that doesnt "solve" the problem, so what they do is they store ONE copy of an attachment and everybody "shares" that copy. Think about it... how often do you send the same silly video to like 1000 people, why have 1000 copies. Now, multiply that by the ENTIRE WORLD of internet users. You see the savings quickly.

Have you ever tried sending email to your Gmail id without the dot “.”? It will be still delivered to your inbox. So for Gmail fname.lname@gmail.com and fnamelname@gmail.com is one and the same thing, so any email sent to these IDs will be delivered to my fname.lname@gmail.com inbox.

It would appear I have a problem with Wordpress not sending comments and mail from the PXS Mail Form to Gmail.

With Gmail crashing Firefox? Am I the only one experiencing this?

According to Heiss Online, Google is not longer handing out Gmail accounts in Germany, in an attempt to avoid a local trademark dispute over the Gmail name. Rather, they are handing out GoogleMail.com accounts.

if you have x.y@gmail.com and your friend happens to write to xy@gmail.com by mistake you still get the email. Vice versa works as well.

SiliconBeat points to a GreaseMonkey script that adds a “delete” button to Gmail, which doesn’t normally have one. Very cool.

A fantastic article on EvHead, about how to base your entire small business infrastructure around web apps like basecamp, gmail etc.

Da qualche giorno (io me ne sono accorto oggi) è possibile utilizzare la casella di posta elettronica su Gmail utilizzando un qualsiasi client di posta elettronica (come Outlook o Thunderbird sia in ambiente Win che Mac che Linux) che sfutta il diffuso protocollo POP.

I log all my conversations (to find old facts or links), but since I use 3 different computers, the log I need to read is usually on another machine. Problem solved, has created a cool plugin that automatically logs all conversations to GMail.

I’ve tried a few of the scripts that are floating around the net for backing up del.icio.us to Gmail. The easiest one by far to get up and running with minimal dependencies would be Bill Mill’s version. The end result will backup your entire del.icio.us links collection to your 2GB Gmail account.

Apparently, AOL is releasing a 2 GB webmail service for its AIM users. I could care less: I use GAIM (so I wouldn’t get the alerts for new messages), and GMail is superior in almost every way imaginable. Personally, I think this is without purpose for the general public. It is horrible compared to its competition, there is nothing unique about it, and its just flat out not worth the time and effort.

I used to feel my gmail was spammer-proof too, although i have noticed a few slipping in lately. This could be due to the fact that I am forwarding all of my catchall “webmaster” accounts to my google address after I noticed it’s great spam catching ability.

It’s fully customizable which is something which the other portals dont have and it also works well with my Gmail. All hail Google!

Gmail is down, can't find the reason why, but there are quite a few posts on it on the blogshpere. It's a non-essensial service to me, as I'm using it as a secondary email, but that is disturbing to say the least, as far as I can tell, it's down for at least three or four hours.

AJAX is JavaScript based and JavaScript is usually used to add convenience and to pretty up web pages. Because sites had to work without JavaScript, usage was limited to extending the HTML or saving on the odd page request. Then came GMail. Suddenly we have lot’s of web developers “enhancing” the browser experience with behind the scenes XML fetching back to the original site. I cannot think of a worse collision of technologies than low level user interfaces with requests over the internet. The delays and failures of internet traffic...

If you have a real browser, it just got easier for you to check your mail. An extension is out that notifies you of how many e-mails are in your Gmail inbox. I just leave a tab open and check the title every so often to see if there's new mail, but this is a great next step.

Sarah Lane posted some links to cool apps that you can use with Gmail.

Among them are a POP client, notification app, e-mail importer, and a registry hack that makes mailto: links go to GMail.

So we have My Yahoo that everyone knows all about, but now Google has Google Personalized. It is still in beta, but it is a step in the right direction. As soon as they put RSS feeds in, it will be really nice. But the reason I put this is that you can now get a Gmail account. You don't have to have an invite from someone or anything. You just have to go here and then go to Sign in and get an account. Gmail is nice and getting nicer.

A German court ruled it illegal for Google to use the email domain “gmail.com”, as Golem reports. Google already changed their email’s name to “Google Mail" for German users, but the gmail.com extension prevails so far – now the state court of Hamburg said Google may not offer emails with this extension to German users. Daniel Giersch owns the trademark “Gmail” in Germany and isn’t willing to give up easily. He already rejected an offer from Google to buy the name from him, Giersch said on Golem. I wonder if he should truly have any more rights than to the domain Gmail.de?

So, back to GMail - never before has it put an email from a private address in the Spam folder. However, on this occasion an email request for private assistance went directly in there. Now, I want you to know that I have never hit the "Report Spam" button on any email like this, so I have never trained it for these emails. I simply respond to them suggesting they move back to the forum and let the message float away into the masses of email in my GMail account.

Greasemonkey can add persistent searches to Gmail with such transparency that you forget Google doesn’t provide this feature.

Gmail Hard Drive.com is an awesome way to take advantage of the 2+ Gigs of space in your gmail account! Why only store e-mails or take forever composing and attaching the files and sending them to yourself to store them?

Gmail Hard Drive.com aloows you to directly connect to your gmail account and to quickly upload any file you want and then you can download the file

No sooner have I just got the hang of it, and something like this crops up!http://www.blogherald.com/2005/05/12/google-considering-integrating-blogger-and-gmail/

Well I finally got back to my gmail posting script. Now both Pictures and Text are working. At the moment the images posted to WordPress are full size, I plan to add a resizing thumbnail feature down the road. I’ve attached a picture of my current computer setup with this email just to show that it works :)

If anyone is interested in the script you can download it here.

I have just finished reading the 2nd edition of Google Hacks (2005), by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest. This edition is packed with new hacks and new ways to use Google. Most of the hacks require the ability to use code, but some of them can be used from the web. This edition includes chapters on Google Images, News, Groups, Desktop, and Gmail. Two examples of what I learned: Gmail supports plus-addressing, which I was not familiar with. Using this, you add a + to your Gmail address, to create a special Gmail address to use for web sign-ins, etc....

I have been encountering a weird problem lately. At times, my browsers (IE and Firefox) won’t load google and gmail. When this happens, the load time of other search engines slow down as well. Could there be some kind of a spyware in my PC? Or is this is a server problem? I have a couple of security programs such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, adaware and a firewall but still, it doesn’t seem safe without SP2.

A number of people have commented that Spotlight will revolutionize the way we do business by eliminating, or almost eliminating, the need for hierarchical folders and similar Finder organization. It’s kind of like Gmail: with such powerful search abilities, why bother filing stuff in folders?

Easily done with mailbucket.org. And each Gmail account has an RSS feed too. Or if you’re a user of Mailinator.com, then you’ll be glad there’s a similar service called dodgeit.com but with RSS feeds.

It seems that Google is considering integrating its Blog application - Blogger - with its email application - GMail if recent comments by Google’s Biz Stone are anything to go by. He also says that there is the possibility of an ‘enterprise Blogger version’ as well as new features like image hosting and private groups which would allow limiting of access to blogs to selected people.

A while ago, I was chatting via email with my pal Mike when he mentioned that he had all of his personal email forwarding to his Gmail account. At first I didn’t really see the point, but then I started to think about this scenario. Moments later, I setup all of my personal email to forward to my Gmail account as well. I’m pretty sure Mike uses this setup for the same reason that I do. Here’s why:

Gmail has also become an awesome knowledge base because of the vast amount of storage space. I rarely delete a myITforum mailing list post, I just archive them. I now have almost 6 months of mailing list archives that I can search and find relevant answers on when I need them.

Picasa 2.0 will happily resize and email images to flickr. A really simple way to send images to flickr, the only downside is that you can’t tag the image as it is uploaded this way.

Maybe it is just me but this scares the crap out of me. It is the exact antithesis of something like Tor. I know Google has a "Do no Evil" policy, but what with my life time cookie; correlating gmail, google news news and Google usage; storing all my e-mail and now checking out my websurfing including basic username and passwords (e.g. bloglines doesn't use https); not to mention other things like desktop search and Blogger, I am a little freaked. Especially with their head-quarters in America which doesn't have the best track record...

Can't bear to be without your Gmail? Got WAP? www.gmailwireless.com is for you.

Take a look at this spam that I received today. Apparently, Jesus thinks that I need Norton Internet Security 2004. It also appears that Jesus prefers Yahoo! mail over Hotmail. Maybe someone should send Jesus a Gmail invite? But, being the Son of God, shouldn’t he already have one?

I've gotta conclude that after the Gmail hysteria, Google could see the GWA firestorm coming. GWA must be so strategic and central to Google's future that they pushed forward with it in spite of the public backlash.

This is Google’s specialty: a simple, easy to use interface, accessible to all levels of users. Though there is no indication that anything like this is in the works, one can easily imagine a streamlined Google OS on its own hard disk partition, separated from the entertainment, gaming, and media production environments. In addition to Google’s signature services—a high-powered internet, media, and local disk search engine—it would likely consist of an office suite, a lean web browser, and various other applications and utilities....

I find it amazing how much the web/web-user interface has altered from what it was just a short while ago: Firefox, with all its plugins and Greasemonkey extensions (provided that the whole thing doesn't end up broken); what I noted Mike calls 'a galaxy of API-enabled web-services … exploring the all-of-one-type-of-thing-everywhere path'; the first shot (from Larry Gadea) at integrating Gmail with Google Desktop Search; the almost daily initiatives that both Google and Yahoo! are making with their search engines; the only just a bit slower rate...

Only tests could say if this tool really speed up your surfing experience, but I think that in the next day (when the tool become popular) we'll see some privacy concerns also here, exactly like Gmail (all your traffic will pass from Google's servers).

Well, it appears that the XMLHTTPRequest approach is gaining some ground. It and other standard technologies like CSS and DOM, are being used in combination in a methodology called Ajax that is delivering some of the same promises that Smart Clients are supposed to bring. If you’ve seen Google’s mail service or Google Maps, you’ve seen just what it can do.

Using Gmail as a Spam Filter. Tempted to try this.

What was really fun (OK, not so fun) was sending out invites to all of the people who had requested them (sorry, I’m out of them so far – turns out you only get 100). I noted something interesting there – a preponderance of gmail.com addresses. So I counted and this is what I got: 22% of requesters had Gmail accounts, 18% had a Yahoo! email address, and 3% had hotmail.com domains. Interestingly, there was one person with a Yahoo! email and MSN Spaces personal Web site – I have a feeling he/she will be changing...

ozman.lasvegas@gmail.com

Sorry, I forgot to say that my email is smallsun@gmail.com

if you happen to have an extra invite, it would be rad if you sent it my way! matikonesta@gmail.com

In Jason’s roundup of the Adobe-Macromedia acquisition, he alludes to Tim Bray’s comment that Adobe may drop Flash, and proffers Ajax as an alternative for web developers — a bit of jumping the gun, if you ask me.

Last fall, Kevin Lynch, the Chief Architect of Macromedia, asked to meet with me regarding my work on the Gmail API, under the guise of hinting at potential employment opportunities in the Experience Design group *. Essentially, he and his associate, an ex-Microsoft guy they poached from the ASP.NET group, wanted to know how the Gmail Ajax system worked, and how it worked so quickly. We also covered their new Flex platform, their take on the Lazlo project (supportive, but would ultimately rather see all efforts focused on Flex), and uses of the XML socketing support that was introduced in Flash 5.

Google has definately been behind Yahoo when it comes to RSS integration and RSS feed reading with Yahoo adding an RSS feed aggregator to MyYahoo and implementing feeds into custom versions of the new Yahoo News layout. However, Google has taken a step into RSS feed reading with implementation of Google Web Clips into the GMail interface.

Gmail has a Chinese interface now! Great! I'll recommend to my friends.

The Gmail account I run in Firefox with Greasemonkey running + Arantius' Gmail 'delete button' script + Persistent.info's 'persistent searches' for Gmail functions very weirdly. It won't open the Gmail Help window, for example, and in "email composition" mode it won't add hyper-links to text. Disable Greasemonkey, and therefore these two scripts, and all is fine again.

In IE, running Google's latest Google Toolbar, I can't now get beyond 'Loading' when opening a Gmail account. (I used to have no problem, but I guess Google is tweaking Gmail all the time.) Temporarily remove the Google Toolbar, and the Gmail account loads.

This is very quick, on-the-hoof feedback, but it would seem that messing around with browsers and web-services that run therein will create problems for end-users. If even Google isn't getting this right … A pity: I really like those two Firefox/Greasemonkey Gmail scripts.

I don’t normally look at this very often but I note today that I have 49 gmail invites to send out.

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For what it's worth, all Gmail account holders now have 50 invites to send out, and they renew themselves to that preset level. ^^

1. Gmail Notifer : Sits in your taskbar and alerts you when you have Gmail.

7. Webmail Compose : Changes the default behavior of mailto links so that you can use yahoo mail, msn, or in my case, Gmail.

GGG-Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to put up with any wack-ass shit in your inbox. Some of the hot GGG-Gmail features are:

I eventually found John Blade’s version of the Wordpress mail2blog script. I ended up editing it a bit, and along with some stunnel’ing and a new (secret!!) gmail account, I now have phone2blog functionality too… The pic of the bike was just a test, (Apparently it’s the first and only Ninja ZX-6R in the country at the moment…) and it’s standing right outside the offices where I work.

Google hasn't been just a search engine for a long time. In addition to Gmail (which I use), Orkut (friend of a friend software), Picasa (photo organization), and Froogle (online shopping index), they've been upgrading their Maps feature like crazy. Recently they've added the ability to view a map or a satellite view and opened the API (to help programmers) which resulted in at least one amazing hack.

After a couple months of having an active gmail account, I find that there's spam in there now. The strange thing is that I've almost exclusively used the account for receiving mail - particularly google news alerts.

Just saw this interesting bit when I logged into my Gmail account a few minutes ago. I don't think it's an April Fools Joke. Like this is.

Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

Fonts, bullets and highlighting, oh my! Gmail now offers rich text formatting. And over 60 colors of the rainbow. Discover a land of more than just black and white.

after the friendster blogging service, now yahoo have it’s own all-in-one blogging and photoalbum service, called yahoo 360°. the service is still on beta stage, and it uses gmail scheme of spreading, by allocating 100 membership invitations for each member. i decided to make it my indonesian language blog. for you who also want to be invited, just drop me a line in the comment box.

In a post on January 26 I mentioned that I had just scored a Gmail address and was about to install that as the contact email for this blog.

This has worked well and although there has been some spam, Gmail has been very good indeed, so far, in intercepting the spam and corralling it into a spam folder for checking and deletion. Makes Outlook seem a very blunt instrument in comparison.

I could become quite a fan of Gmail!

Describing the Yahoo-Google face off, Havoc recently put it, “Google is trying to be Yahoo and Yahoo is trying to be Google”, in their race to be the one-stop shop for everything online. Although Yahoo did significantly better in regards operating profits and service reliability, Google is stealing all the limelight. Anything the company does, it rakes in oodles of publicity, for e.g. the latest integration of Google Maps with Keyhole technology that lets you view...

Jonathan Hernandez, a Mexican programmer, has figured out how to turn Google’s Gmail service into a blog.

Using Gmail messages as the blog comments, Gallina uses XML & XSLT to convert the emails into a blog.

Google may not be happy about the tool though, their terms of use for Gmail specify that screen scraping is not allowed. This type of technology is how Gallina functions.

After logging in to read my googleMail, I noticed that Google has given me 50 gmail invites this week.

This will probably mean that Google is expanding the webmail service in preparation for a full public rollout. Users of gmail so far, myself included, have found the service to be easy to use and offers plenty of storage. I personally do not use gmail as my primary email account though.

With their recent hiring of FireFox lead developer Ben Goodger, Google Inc is set to begin mapping out the future of web browsing. Google has already proven it’s ability to create interfaces that work well, google search is #1 and everyone loves the way gMail works, but perhaps more astonishing features for the web browser have yet to been seen.

Gmail gone public....I guess their social experiment is over

Link: Google Accounts.

Since we launched Gmail in April 2004, we've been focused on improving the service, relying on our users to spread the word and invite others to try it out. The response has been great, and now we're ready for some more Gmail users.

hey can u pass one of those gggggmail invites?

For instance, Google, with their Gmail product, is attempting to redefine how we access our e-mail, how we store it and where we store it. The idea being that we should have virtually limitless e-mail storage, on a centralized server, available from anywhere, able to be accessed through any browser or client, with threaded or context based views of topics and that we should not have to file it into folders because it is able to be searched by sender, subject and content so therefore retrieved very quickly....

OK, that’s ehm, well… that sounds nice in theory, but does it have much practical applications? It appears that it has, and when I saw it, it blew me away. Some guy succeeded in adding persistent searches to Gmail. Nearly every normal mail client has those these days, sometimes they’re called smart folders or vFolders; what they do is the same: create a “folder” that contains all the mail matching certain criteria. For example all the mail you received...

After installing Greasemonkey in Firefox and installing the user script this what it looks like when you visit your Gmail mailbox:

The searches are performed instantly and can be updated by pressing the little refresh button at the top-right of the box. When you click one of the persistent searches it will show the result in the usual search-result fashion. You can also add new persistent searches. Only drawback is that the searches are stored in a cookie, so they’re not there if you login to Gmail with another computer.

Gmail is amazing - and now offering TWO GB of email storage. That's good news since I was at 83% already ;) more stories here

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Ringo is an interesting new service from Monster Worldwide, Inc. It is essentially little more than an online address book, but what makes it note worthy, is the comprehensive import features it has, which allow you to import contacts from MSN, Hotmail, GMail and AOL. Once it’s grabbed the addresses from you accounts it compares them to existing Ringo members, and if people aren’t already a member it allows you to send out an invite to them, so they can enter their own information. This is a nice touch,...

Someone at CNet thinks that Google is trying to render the desktop irrelevant. For the past few months they have been hiring away a bunch of Microsoft's talent. The author speculates that this is to create a thin desktop client and make the standard...

Gmail has recently rolled out a new feature; they plan on giving “Infinity + 1” storage to all their users. Their reasoning is that as technology and the internet improves, people will need more and more storage. With the increase in storage space, larger attachment sizes should follow as well. Less known, but just as impressive is the addition of rich text formatting. Not only does the script work in Netscape type browsers such as Mozilla and Firefox, but also brings it up to...

I still have Gmail invites, though most people that want one already have one.

Une flopée d'outils pour customizer et exploiter au maximum GMail

Voici les sites qui parlent de Tout pour GMail:

did anyone happen to see google yesterday (april fool’s day)? it was funny. they were advertising a new google product - a drink. the frequently asked questions about it were just ripping google and gmail off (as in google ripping itself off). some of the slashdot posts were kinda funny too. especially how the u.n. is banning apple computers cos the apple symbol isn’t based on the apple-growing region in the south of france.

Looks like Gmail is rolling out an upgrade on 1st of April. It is now increasing the mail storage space by the second according to their infinity + 1 plan. Check out its progress at the Gmail homepage. If you are already logged in, you can log out to see the increasing counter and then log in to see the total amount of storage space you have at the bottom of the page. Pretty niffty.

Directly from GMail: “Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn’t mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we’re giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people’s lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.”

I also spent some time working on Gmail, learning some tips off the Gmail wiki (like using Gmail for Notes and for web clippings). Since I check email from work and elsewhere from time to time, pushing more into Gmail helps make me a little more efficient. I’ve gotten into the habit of using it for reminders lately.

I just created a new Gmail account and found the confirmation in my Yahoo Bulk folder because Yahoo tagged it as spam.

Gmail confirmation found in Yahoo Bulk filder

Just for kicks I forwarded one of the Yahoo promotional emails from my Inbox to a Gmail account and it went through just fine.

I'm a big fan of both of these companies for different reasons; it's fun to watch the gaming between them.

You know a browser is starting to mature when you can get the tools you need and use on a daily basis. This is a small collection of search tools now available for Firefox.

Googlebar
This extension now allows all Firefox users to make use of the Google Toolbar. The GoogleBar emulates all the basic search functions allowing access to almost all of Google’s specialty searches (including some that not even supported by the original Google Toolbar). Supports Netscape 7, Mozilla, and Firefox web browsers.

Yahoo said late Tuesday that it will provide 1 gigabyte of storage for each free e-mail account. The current limit is 250 megabytes. The expanded storage will be available in mid-April, said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products.

According to a Google spokesperson, the San Francisco-based search giant started a promotion earlier this week on its homepage that offers randomly selected users the chance to join Gmail. "We're upping the amount of some types of users," was all the spokesperson would divulge.

For the most part, both GMail and Firefox rock. However, when you're typing a long e-mail in GMail and you hit Ctrl R instead of Ctrl T, it really sucks. Rather than opening a new tab, I lost my whole e-mail message.

For those who didn't know, there's something called plussing in Gmail. It works simple: you put a and some text after your username (so e.g. praseodym@gmail.com can become praseodym fxfolding@gmail.com). All emails sent to praseodym fxfolding@gmail.com will also be sent to you: handy when filtering your email.