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Gmail Utilities

Excellent list of Gmail utilities, by Mark Lyon (via Metafilter).

Google, Uh, You're A Bit Late

Oh, well, It's a bit late now, isn't it?? Where were you when all this was going on???

Some New Gmail Resources

It's been a little while since I covered this. From ResearchBuzz, one of the work-related blogs I follow faithfully, comes news about a new utility for POP3 and SMTP access to Gmail, and the discussion forums on Gmails (which is almost identical to GmailForums, and just as under-populated; I would still refer people to the now well-established forums in Orkut: Gmail, Gmail Users, and Gmail Tips & Tricks). However, it was through Gmails that I found a link to Gmail Tips, part of Jim's Tips blog.

UPDATE July 20th: Pop Goes The Gmail (alpha version): Gmail to POP3 converter. Wow, there's a lot of cottage industries springing up around Gmail.

Sympatico MSN: Whoop-dee-doo.

Four full-page ads in The Globe and Mail and that's not cheap. Sympatico and MSN are pulling out all the stops to hype their new portal service. Whoop-de-doo. There is nothing new except the ability to move entries between columns and move columns around (everything, of course, from a pre-selected menu of Sympatico-MSN approved choices). Big deal.

If you really want my attention (and your advertising dollar), you'd let me add my own RSS feeds and display them in the pretty little boxes too, instead of just providing one measly little box for my bookmarks.

And if you think this is gonna get me to come to Hotmail, you need to give your head a shake and top up the caffeine in your virtual coffee, all you P.R. people at Sympatico MSN. Nuh-uh. Way too little, way too late. I hope Gmail eats Hotmail's lunch.

I also notice, with unalloyed glee, the eBay prices on Gmail invitations dropping like a rock. Hee hee hee...now tell me, those of you who shelled out as much as $262.00 for an invitation: was it worth it? Seriously??

Ooh I am in an evil mood today...

Email Bankruptcy

Lawrence Lessig has declared email bankruptcy (via the shiny new redesigned apophenia blog by danah boyd)

To Club, Or Not To Club

Just another example of the wild'n wonderful swaps that are taking place on the gmailswap Web site... of course, some swappers are facing moral dilemmas in their quest for a prized Gmail account.

Gmail Will Have New Features

From this post on engadget (thanks for the alert, hexagon sun), it would appear that Google is going to be working hard to provide a lot of tasty new features to gmail: contact import/export and automatic forwarding, among others.

Nifty, Neat, and Noteworthy Swaps...

If you haven't checked out some of the things that people are willing to swap for an invitation to the Gmail service on gmailswap.com, please do so. Guaranteed to cheer you up :-)

Gmail Swap

Gmail Swap. A brilliant idea. Kudos to Sean Michaels at gramophone@gmail.com...

See also: the first two links on Gmail here (one is for pointers to a collection of Gmail-related resources online; the other is how to use a neat utility called GetMail to forward your Hotmail to Gmail).

UPDATE May 20th: Wired New article on Gmail Swap

A Terabyte of Email Storage?!?

There has been much discussion and speculation in the Gmail Users form on Orkut, regarding what appears to be random Gmail accounts whose total storage space has been increased from 1 Gigbyte (1,000 Megabyte) to 1 Terabyte (1,000,000 Megabyte). I was one of those people, at the bottom of my Gmail screen it says:

If this is true, and not a joke (nobody seems to know for sure yet), I have enough space to last me for the rest of my life and even then I'd have to bequeath it to my heirs to use the rest of the space! (Then again, various format of multimedia files do get pretty huge...)