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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. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    people are making so much use of gmail for different things
    i wonder when ill be able to run off a remote OS installed on a gmail account

    1. Re:hmm by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 5, Funny
      Actually, I've realised that one untapped source of data storage space is in Slashdot comments. Untold gigabytes of free storage space at our fingertips, just waiting to be tapped!

      I've decided I'll be uploading an encrypted backup of my hard disk with my new SlashdotFS. Yeah, it's slow, yeah, it's against untold numbers of terms of service, but who cares. It's free, and it's huge!
      ---slashdotfs.v1.337---
      48101bbdd897877cc62b8704a 293a436
      55bc3937bb9c3b6a010b11d3887fed42
      6894952 b2cd2b995d6153149867fb861
      8a22d33414aae8228a623f0 1da53ed6a
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    2. Re:hmm by dzym · · Score: 5, Funny

      After running that block of data hrough decryption, I've determined that block of hex is a picture of petrified Natalie Portman and hot grits.

    3. Re:hmm by barfomar · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I bet Oreilly is writing up Gmail Hacks as we speak....

  2. Google is going to be upset by Seoulstriker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google was pissed at third-party tools which check emails. Now I wonder what Google is going to think of a program or script which uses the Gmail email directory as a sort of web-hosting deal. I'm not too optimistic about Google's response. :-(

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    1. Re:Google is going to be upset by wviperw · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well what response should we expect from Google? Euphoria? For any company, even Google, it would make absolutely no sense to essentially provide free hard drive space to anybody and everybody on the planet. Of course they are not going to like it.

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  3. gmail has terms of service that disallow this by benasselstine · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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????

  7. Yeah by mcc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What, Google create an free, optional service that you aren't personally interested in? How dare they?

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  8. Re:Sick of gmail by Dr+Tall · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  9. This is all well and good, but by AC-x · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought Google already provided a free blogging service?

  10. Harrumph by Trailwalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone who needs a gig of space to write down what is on his mind has a bigger problem than finding space online.

  11. Re:Sick of gmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - September 6, 2004 - Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that they are discontinuing the popular beta trial of their "Gmail" personal e-mail service. "When we realized that Slashdot user thammond had pledged not to use the service, we decided there was no point in continuing," said Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products. While the service had appeared to be gaining momentum as an alternative to other free e-mail services, thammond's pledge, announced today on the popular technology news site Slashdot, made it clear to company management that there was no future in the offering. Existing users of the service will be notified early this week and Google assured concerned shareholders that "future innovations will be submitted to thammond for approval prior to release in the future."

  12. 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.

  13. Re:Sick of gmail by jericho4.0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ah yes, I remember the morning I got my gmail account. We had just returned the hounds to the pen and stabled the horses when the ambassador arrived with my invite. I was worried it would be over run with riffraff, but after reciving assurances from the Kennedys that invitations were strictly for the better class of people, I joined up, and golly I'm happy I did.

    Seriously, it took me 5 min after I read about gmail to get an account. Have you no friends? There are _millions_ of invites out there.

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