Hosted Gmail
First there was email. Time passed. Then there was Gmail.
I’m not writing to convince non-Gmail users to use Gmail. I’m writing show this screen shot of Hosted Gmail in action. It’s a beta mail hosting service on top of the beta gmail service, so assuming beta < 1, therefore beta*beta < beta; ergo, it may be worse than gmail alone. But I’m prepared for any possible punishment. Gmail is just that wonderful.
The hosting solution may seem redundant for people who’ve setup email forwarding from their non-gmail accounts to gmail, but Hosted Gmail would seem a cleaner solution, with unlimited potential. Currently that potential begins with allowing the management of additional users. Its a start.
Dr Nic’s Wish: Hosted Gmail to provide “public” access to each others’ emails within your domain (or subgroups) so that knowledge that accumulates within email boxes can be shared more easily.
Dr Nic’s History: when I first learnt Ruby on Rails, the first thing I did was build a Gmail clone. This was pre-RJS days and before I discovered TrimPath, so the Javascript usage was clunky, and it sent a lot of HTML back to the browser instead of JSON data. But it was lovely.
Gmail Hosted: https://www.google.com/hosted
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Cool blog man!
I like your ActiveRecord work a lot, but your your white on orange blog theme is borderline unreadable. Just so you know.
@evan - re: overbearing orange - I agree.
It was my first Wordpress installation, and my enthusiasm for adding plugins and extending the HTML made forget to choose a simple theme in the first place.
Note to self: copy out the header/style/sidebar changes; install new theme (scribbish?); put fun stuff back in.
@evan - no more orange. Thanks for the suggestion.