Ma.Gnolia Data Loss, What Have We Learned?
Ma.gnolia , a social bookmarking service is down, lost all their user data and they don’t know if / when they can recover. This is as bad as it can get for any Web 2.0 service (and more importantly for users), and the backlash against Cloud services has already started. Krish will do has a
Why Google Should Acquire Oopsmail
I bet you did not know there was a service called Oopsmail: Oopsmail offers simplicity! It is the simplest email you will ever find anywhere. … YOU should be the one to decide what mail you want to receive and what you don’t… not your ISP or email provider! With OopsMail.com you will always receive [...]
Gmail Themes as Productivity Tools?
OK, this may be a bit of a stretch, but I really think the newly released themes for Gmail do more than appeal to our senses. They actually have a very practical application: differentiating between multiple Gmail accounts. I have branded (Google Apps, using my own domain) accounts for business and personal use, and a [...]
Alert: Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves
How old is your work computer? – asks the Wall Street Journal. Mine is a year-and-a half old. The dual-core former screamer (obviously not the one the the pic to the right) has become an average slow machine now that quad-core is the standard, but I could not care less. I don’t need a faster, [...]
Updated Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail
This is now so simple, it shouldn’t even require any guidance, but I am still receiving inquiries, so I thought I’d reprint this guide, originally published on my personal blog. But first things first… Why would you want to import all your old email to Gmail? Because it gives you an All-In-One, searchable archive. I [...]
Trust the Cloud, but Have a Backup Plan. Google Lockouts are not Fun.
Just about every few month we get a high-profile case of someone getting shut out of their Gmail and other Google services. Google is notorious for freezing accounts without a warning, often in the users defence, i.e. when they detect probability of hacking. When you’re Loren Baker, Editor of Search Engine Journal and blog about [...]
Google Releases New Zoho Service: Mail with Offline Support
Yes, you read it right: the first announcement of Zoho Mail’s general availability, with Google Gears-based offline support did not come from Zoho, but from the Google Gears team, which released this video discussing Zoho’s use of Google Gears, synchronization, the Marketplace and a lot more a bit prematurely: Somewhat used to it (see TechCrunch [...]
Living in the Clouds – Gmail
Image via CrunchBase This is the first app I will be discussing in the series titled “Living in the Clouds”. What better way to start this series than starting off with Gmail. Yes, there was email much before Gmail. I am not denying that. However, Gmail changed the way we use email as a part of our [...]
