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A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries

Posted by Hemos on from the using-the-space-in-more-interesting-ways dept.

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."

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  1. New gmail auth? by J-bob2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How are they getting past the new gmail authentication?

    1. Re:New gmail auth? by coandco · · Score: 5, Interesting

      There isn't any 'new GMail authentication', at least not in a form that would affect this program.

      If you have GMail, you probably won't have noticed anything different in your login screen. The only time that their extra authentication measures kick in is when someone tries to log in to an account tons of times in a short period with the wrong password. It's not meant to block all external programs, just prevent automatic password-guessing type attacks.

  2. Not so sure by mcc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Many of Google's other functions, like the search, they openly published interfaces to via web services and such. They explicitly disallow in the GMail TOS using web-fetching "screen scrapers" like this thing uses, but I'd imagine their main objection would be not so much the loss of control as that they don't want to be locked into a specific set of HTML-- if they significantly change their page layouts then any program which fetches and reprocesses GMail web pages will break.

    But this bloggy thing is a very cool feature and Google might well publish a public web-services interface to GMail as well to allow things like this to happen before the end.

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  3. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can I now mount my blog using gmailfs?

    Seriously, this is getting silly. It's supposed to be an email system and it's going to be financed by google targeting ads specificly to their users (based on their emails, but who cares about privacy anyway?), so I don't think google will let these things survive.

    Now I could understand if someone developed a technique that allowed for bigger attachments (pr0n anyone? ;-D)but a blog????

  4. Use it for email by cmallinson · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If google built a blog tool that oculd hold 1000MB of data, someone would figure out how to get it to store email.

    I'm a bit concerned that everyone seems to want to find a way to fill up their Gigabyte on Gmail. If storage becomes the main feature of Gmail, people will eventually open up 500 accounts and built a Gmail array for their file storage. This will force Google to lock down their application, and those of us using it for EMAIL will suffer.

    1. Re:Use it for email by jsebrech · · Score: 4, Interesting

      If storage becomes the main feature of Gmail, people will eventually open up 500 accounts and built a Gmail array for their file storage.

      The delay and throughput of internet-based file storage is just not worth it, and with the gmail interface in between it would be even slower. People are doing these things for the novelty factor, but as soon as they figure out that there are easier ways to get the same things done, they'll move on, and this won't be a problem anymore.

      Besides, if you're using gmail for personal storage, you can just email yourself the files you want as attachments. And if you're using it to host stuff, you're going to have to run elaborate scripts, which waste tons of bandwidth uselessly copying data, and since bandwidth is more expensive than disk space, it would be more cost-effective to just get more disk space on your webserver account than to use elaborate gmail-interfacing scripts.

  5. 1000MB may sound like a lot... by baywulf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1000MB may sound like a lot but at current hard drive pricing that is only about a half dollar if you buy a 100GB drive. Why do people go to so much trouble to redirect GMail for other uses? If people do things that make their advertising less valuable then they will strike hard on everybody and that only hurts us normal users if they make it harder to login or use as an email service.

  6. Online MP3 Storage by Kraegar · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Having gotten an extra account invite from google, and not knowing anyone who was interested, I decided to start a new account myself, and email mp3's to it. In the emails I include the artist, album, and lyrics. I group styles using the "label" feature.

    So now I have 1gb of online, searchable mp3's.

  7. Do you really want to entrust your data to others? by John+Jorsett · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Email. Blogs. Mountable drives. And all built on GMail. I'd be quite concerned about becoming too dependent on the good graces of a third party for maintaining my data. I recall the number of people who got caught flat-footed when free email services and photo hosting went belly-up with little or no notice. Not to mention putting potentially sensitive material in a convenient place for hackers to target, or law enforcement or aggrieved spouses to subpoena.