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4 CommentsFor me, 2007 was the year of the wiki. I find myself looking up the oddest words on Wikipedia; did you know wiki is hawaiian for “fast”? It does and being able to look up such things all in one place made the web seem smaller. Really though, it just became useful.
Google wants in on [...]
CommentAll wound up in a package featuring a nice logo, Mozilla Weave (just launched) aims to explore “the blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services”. That sounds nice. But what does it mean? Reading up on their use cases helps a bit:
That all sounds really nice. Except in my case, I’m already enjoying most of this using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Browser Sync and Google Docs. I expect Google Storage to be just around the corner. Competition is good, and it’s nice to see open standard versions of these services, but one must wonder whether anyone will adopt Mozillas offerings.
CommentThere’s a new API in town. It’s name is Google Charts. The abuse shown above is a timeless classic. Thanks for the tip, Frederik.
I wonder what other hilarous abuse this will lead to.
CommentOnce again Googles year-end roundup, “Zeitgeist”, shows what’s been popular in the passing year. The lesson this year comes from young actress Vanessa Hudgens: flash yourself and skyrocket to fame. Sort of confirms what Atomic Swing said all along.
2 CommentsGoogle has started rolling out colored labels in Gmail. It’s smart, I like it a lot, especially how removing a label is now no longer an option in a pulldown menu, but actually related to the label you’re removing. I am, however, ready for a label manager redesign. The whole “search don’t sort” thing, at times, seems a bit too smart compared to good ol’ folders.
3 CommentsWhat would it take to build a better mobile phone?
A commitment to openness, a shared vision for the future, and concrete plans to make the vision a reality.
– From the new Open Handset Alliance.
In case you missed it, the keyword here is “openness”, which feels like an obvious sting at Apples recent iPhone development [...]
1 CommentDid you know Google Analytics does site search tracking? Well it does, it works well, and if you have both on your website, you should enable site search tracking right now.
6 CommentsThere’s a new version of Gmail on its way. Supposedly it’s speedier and has better contact management. New screenshots also show a graphic change: it’s no longer Gmail, it’s now Google Mail.
Why? Here’s a few possibilities and observations:
Who makes Gmail? Google does. Did you know? Maybe your mom didn’t. She will now.
My my look at [...]
5 CommentsMozilla has just launched another web-app framework. Prism, kinda like Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, allows you to take websites with you to the Desktop.
It works this way: first you install Mozilla Prism. Then you start the app and type in the URL of the website you want to take with you to the desktop. [...]
2 CommentsBig news for fans of Gmail and standalone email clients: IMAP support. What’s that you ask? Well according to Wikipedia:
[IMAP] is an application layer Internet protocol [...] that allows a local client to access e-mail on a remote server.
Having never used IMAP myself before, this sounds to me like you can now use your Gmail account without ever logging into the online web interface. Using the IMAP commands, you can send, delete, archive and spam your Gmail directly from compatible clients such as Thunderbird. Now even though I’ve fully switched from Thunderbird, I can still see the smartness in this. Your Gmail account just became a funnel for all your other mail accounts. One account to rule them out. You pick your interface. Neat.
5 CommentsSince I switched to using Gmail as my only mail client, email has begun working for me again. Spam is less of a headache and I can access my mail anywhere. Having learned that Google may be working on a new interface for Gmail, I quickly concocted this wish list for Gmail Gamma, in no [...]
8 CommentsYouTube annoys me to no end. It’s loaded with dimwitted comments, and it’s design, while simplish, is ugly. Even so, videos like these Transformers clips ([1], [2]) keep me coming back. So, now that we have to put up with all the other things, can’t Google at least improve the video quality? I know I’d willingly sacrifice at least 1 GB from my Gmail account if it made a difference. Can anyone tell me why the quality has to be last-century?
6 CommentsAdobe just demo’ed Apollo.
To my understanding, Apollo is a platform that is available on major operating systems, which allow web-apps to work as “real applications”. I understand this is similar to the “offline apps” feature that is being worked into Firefox 3. From Adobe Labs:
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being [...]
9 CommentsJust last week, I learned that Gmail can now download my regular POP3 mail to the Gmail interface. Previously, it only worked the other way around, meaning you could download Gmail messages via POP3 to your standalone mail client.
Well I essentially jumped right in and made Gmail my mail client of choice. It now [...]
8 CommentsApparently as of February 2007, Gmail is not only open to the public, but has a new feature which I’ve been hoping/waiting for since April 1st 2004. That feature is called “Other Accounts“, and basically means you can download your non-web based emails, from your server, to Gmail, via POP3.
Why is this so great? For so many reasons. Essentially, you can now have a single unified email address (with Google in the name of course). That, or you could just route all your various mail addresses through Gmails spam filter and have Gmail forward it to your other mail address of choice. Either way, for me, Thunderbird has fierce competition. Now I wonder if Apollo could be used to wrap Gmail as “standalone” desktop app…