A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries

Jean-Luc R. writes "Via mediaTIC blog. Gallina is a GMail blog tool created by Jonathan Hernandez that uses GMail messages as "entries" (so 1000 MB of entries!!), replies to conversations are the "entry comments", uses Libgmailer (gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail. It uses XML/XSLT and by the way it's a GPL software. You can download it there. See the Gallina Demo Blog as for an example."

Comments

gmail has terms of service that disallow this

[benasselstine]

from the just because you can doesn't mean you're allowed dept. http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.ht ml

Re:Sick of gmail

[NetCow]

It's a classic marketing device - the "ha, ha, you can't have it!" technique... Builds up a huge expectation momentum, provided you have the resources, and Google certainly does.

Re:Sick of gmail

[Dr Tall]

Gmail is invitation only because it is in beta and they want to scale up their size slowly. When it is completed, it will be open to everyone. And good luck not using Google; a lot of other search engines use Google indirectly.

Gmail lite project

[erick99]

I don't really care much about blogs, especially the notion of a a gigabyte of it...anyway, the Gmail lite project page is a good read. The author is amiable and does a good job explaining why he was interested in and did the project.

Cheers,

Erick

Just wait

[lightdarkness]

It won't be long til google flips out, and changes their protacols again, they are so paranoid about 3rd parties using their storage for other means.

Re:Google is going to be upset

[Locarius]

For every user that fills their space there are ten thousand who barely use any. Trust me, they are making money regardless of what a few scripters do.

Re:Not so sure

[FCAdcock]

Google does, it's called blogger. And it has an email account you can email to update your page.

You want a gmail invite?

[Laebshade]

If you want a gmail invite you just have to search on Google. Google is giving invitations away a lot more now to current subscribers. Visit my website, I have 5 gmail invites left to give. And I'm giving them away for free, no strings attached. Gmail is still in beta too, so that's probably why it's currently invitation only. Not sure if they have plans to make it open to all though.

Btw, POP access is currently in the works, though IMAP would indeed be nice. I'll make a suggestion.

This is all well and good, but

[AC-x]

I thought Google already provided a free blogging service?

Re:GMail will fail.

[madfgurtbn]

You really have no idea how cheap storage is (and is getting) and how much advertisers are willing to pay for googles targeted ads.

The question is not the storage, I would think, as much as the bandwidth. GMail's business model does not include the idea of, say, 10k people accessing a single gmail account to view content, which may or may not include Google's adverts.

Odd.

[mcc]

I don't see it on those pages. However I signed up for a GMail account a few days ago, and that was definitely one of the clauses of the clickthrough agreement I was presented with at that time. It appears their clickthrough agreement is different from their posted TOS policy? I guess you'd need to find a gmail invite in order to read the clickthrough...

Re:Not so sure

[Baricom]

#5:

...Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service... (emphasis mine)