Warning: Geeky/programmer stuff
By now, everyone knows I am a gmail fan. Though I don’t know why, I am.
I think PGtGM had something to do with it.
More Gmail related ideas ….
This smart aleck actually used GMail as an online file storage service using PHP scripts.
This is a sign of success of any service, when random people start working with it hard enough to make substantial changes/additions/hacks.
Also, while on this, I saw this cool book on Hacking the XBox
26 Jul 2004 at 11:55 am
Dude, how hard is/was it speculate this sort of a thing.
Still stick with my stand that 1GB is not how big a mailbox should be. If you say, you need it, you have problems. The only thing GBs inspire is online storage (read porn sites, IMHO)
Google may do a lot for whatever reasons:publicity, strategy, ego.
But the fact remains 1GB is close to what the Britannica is and that is crazy. Sending a full DivX movie is not what e-mail should be used for.
26 Jul 2004 at 2:06 pm
Hmm, and I guess 640k is enough too, huh?!
Seriously, the way Hotmail/SpyMac/Yahoo are touting bigger mailboxes is wrong. Their concept of a big mailbox is just competitive. But google’s is competitive as well as logical. The fact that there is a quality mail-search feature built-in proves that storing (read: backing up) all your important docs online is good.
But with the proliferation of digital cameras, beyond the G7 nations is proof enough that mail storage and photo/music/ebooks are and will continue to be “shared” between friends.
Well, you can’t really mail full-length DivX movies, with the per-attachment limitation, but that site I referred to might be breaking stuff into bite-size pieces for just that.
For example, in a single class (ok, my senior project class) we created enough documentation (Word DOC, PDF, XLS, PPT, MS-Project, etc) that came up to a little under 100 megs. Because we had to give a presentation and a report every alternate week (for 8 weeks thats 4 ppt and 4 BIG docs). Include any source-code and screenshots, etc … there you go.
And yes, not every project has a well-build collaboration server at their disposal.
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21 Apr 2005 at 10:01 pm
In my opinion, Gmail, being the leader and starter of widely available, free, fast, highly compatible and high-storage webmail, is doing a Good Thing. Or very close to it.
In any case, I have loved gmail for some of its features and wanted gmail to add some that were available in other mail services. But what Gmail lacks, Thunderbird makes up for.
The space (which is now up to about 2.2 GB) is a tremendous popularity factor, but the Google people probably didn’t want that to be so big of a point at first. They simply wanted their users to never have to delete a (non-spam) file anymore, so they opened up their servers to them.
In a nutshell, I agree with vinit.