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Gmail Commentary and Responses
Phil Windley writes "In his inimitable style, Tim O'Reilly tells us why GMail matters. The piece is entitled, 'The Fuss About GMail' but that doesn't begin to properly identify the real meat of what Tim's saying. Tim does discuss some of the privacy concerns on GMail and why he's not concerned, but he also breaks new ground on why GMail is not just another free email system. For example, Tim talks about how GMail might herald an era of large centralized computing and calls for APIs to allow GMail content to be move back and forth between it and other systems." Reader chris mansley writes "Google is quietly responding all the flak being given to their new email service. They have added a statement to quell the growing list of concerns. No more keeping email forever is at the top of the list. The reviews have been sparse on details and screenshots, but now Google is providing a sneak peek here and here." The only thing I didn't like about Gmail was their apparent intention to keep your mail forever, regardless of your wishes. Since they've now clarified that they don't plan to do that, it doesn't seem like there's much of a problem any more. Yahoo and MSN already link your searches on their respective engines with your account profiles on their respective free email services, and no one seems to care (maybe because no one uses MSN or Yahoo as a search engine these days, but still).
Since that 1GB will quickly be filled with spam and nothing else. Let them search and index THAT!
All Hail Discordia. Hail Eris. Fnord.
John Ashcroft using their PageRank sorting technology to indicate which e-mails are most relavant to his desire to repeal every amendment in numbered order...
Ashcroft is a conservative, he'll never think of touching the 2nd amendment.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Well done Google.
Now lets turn it on and give it a try!
Makes you wonder what is next?
I want a Google watch!
Yeah, they send out this guy.
You know what I think? I think the whole privacy issue is a "grassroots" campaign initiated, funded, and propogated by the one company scared spitless of Google: Microsoft.
My girlfriend's cousin's best friend's roommate in college reported that his brother-in-law (who works for Microsoft, so you know it's from a reliable source) tells me he "handles" the PR firm that is managing this whole campaign, to make it look like Google is a big, scary ursine terror, instead of the big fluffy teddy bear they really are. Microsoft has (to date) spent $1.2M buying advertising disguised as special-interest groups, "reporters" for major tech rags, and M&Ms for the office.
Really. Don't laugh at me like that. I'm serious. It's all part of Microsoft's astroturf campaign to discredit Google.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
No it will replace FireFox with IE7, then it will default your home page to their search engine. ;)
Following which, nanites concealed in the CD tracks of the nearest Microsoft CD to your house will swarm over in the middle of the night and reformat your hard-drive, install Windows XP and bill your credit card for the licence. -Then- IE7 will set your home page to their search engine. :P
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
Last night i had a dream that i was checking my email, and my unused space on my account said 990 MB free!
Finally a dream that might come true!
-John Fenley