New Media + IT

Given the recent commotion regarding Facebook (Scott Gilbertson and Dave Winer has some wraps on this), Paul Buchheit asks an interesting question.
What Facebook wants to prohibit Plaxo Pulse from doing is, to some extent, what Facebook is doing when users import their address books from, say, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. So should Gmail, Yahoo and [...]

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[ categorized as: Privacy ]

As a Gmail user who uses Gmail a lot, I also use a Firefox extension entitled "Better Gmail".
But as Google has started upgrading all Gmail accounts to a new and improved Gmail a new version of the Better Gmail extension is needed.
The aptly named "Better Gmail 2" is available at the Lifehacker site.
The new Better [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

Today when I logged into Gmail, I noticed that I had some more space available than usually:
You are currently using 639 MB (21%) of your 3044 MB.
A quick look at the official Gmail blog and yes:
That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

I have a Hotmail account that I don't use a lot, since I'm hopelessly in love with Gmail, among other things because of the magnificent search.
Nevertheless, I just got a mail from Hotmail telling me, that my account has been upgraded.
Among other things, my account is now an impressing 5 gigabytes — a bit more [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google, Microsoft ]

Derek at UneasySilence has a post that Google has allowed selected Gmail accounts to view attached Powerpoint slides via a Flash tool.
Sounds great. I still can't wait for the "open as Google Document" feature ;-)

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[ categorized as: Google ]

Steve Rubel has done a very interesting post on how you can use Gmail as a resource in various ways.
"Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center".
It's a great read if you want to know how services like Gmail can be used in many ways!

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

From this day forward, I'm no longer using e-mail applications such as Outlook and Thunderbird.
The reason: Gmail now supports fetching e-mail from others accounts using POP3.
So I figured that I might as well go 100 percent online with my e-mailing stuff :-)
To stay updated on incoming e-mails I'm currently using ePrompter. But it would be [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

I'm loving this, Google is making it possible to get e-mail from other accounts — up to five accounts.
And if you add the e-mail addresses as accounts (called "Send mail as") in Gmail you can actually manage most, if not all, of your e-mail chores in Gmail. Nice :D

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Google ]

One might wonder, what this means for the amount of spam in the world…

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[ categorized as: Google ]

Google's Gmail might have had this feature for some time, but it just appeared in my Gmail now.
It's something called "Report bug", and if you click it, you get to this page.
The question now is how long it'll take for Google to get back at you :-)
Search for Gmail's report bug feature at Google Blogsearch.

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[ categorized as: Google ]