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GMail Social Networking

February 8, 2010 By George Leave a Comment

It looks as though GMail is to become Google’s next shot at Facebook, according to an post I read on mashable. Its interestingly timed with Facebook releasing that they are going to integrate email into their very popular social networking platform.

Now I think this will create an interesting battle; because Google are (one of) the leading webmail providers and Facebook (the) leading Social Networking site. They are now about to cross into eachothers territory, using their own existing mammoth userbases as a boost.

It’ll be interesting to see who comes out on top of this one; as Google FriendFeed and the other various ones didn’t work out so great.

Filed Under Internet Tagged With Email, Facebook, Gmail, Google, Social Networking

Facebook Gmail Competitor

February 5, 2010 By George 2 Comments

One of the things I hate most about Facebook is the mail section, which is old fashioned, very backwards and difficult to manage any volume of mail with.

I read today; via twitter, that Facebook are planning a new mail system entirely (dubbed Titan), which would provide it’s users with fully functional email addresses available from within Facebook.

The interesting thing is that apparently their planning on allowing POP3 and SMTP access to the mail, which means users could access their mail without signing into Facebook. As a full mail-service, that puts it into direct competition with Gmail, and as Facebook will roll it out to all their millions of users; Facebook already have a massive number of users. (although; how many will actually use the service I don’t know)

I can see it working really well; because users, especially younger ones, will then see Facebook as a complete solution for email and social networking, and except for msn messenger, Facebook email will most likely do everything that Hotmail does (plus threading), accessible from somewhere everyone goes already – it could be a winner.

It’d be nice to see how well Facebook implement a mail client – I’m looking forward to seeing.

Filed Under Internet Tagged With Email, Facebook, Gmail

And Fused Returns..

January 24, 2010 By George 2 Comments

A few months back, I swapped one of my domains, fused.org.uk, with Donald Kelly. I regretted it very quickly, Fused is a great domain and of course it had a lot of links which never made it to this blog, as he used it for his own.

Well today, I got it back. And now I can continue with my plan for it’s development; so keep your eyes open in the next 12 months for something awesome.

I’m going to try creating things to target UK traffic; because in past little experiments it’s worked out well – it’s easier to capture UK traffic because there is less competition and the traffic is still of a high volume and quality, and speaks English.

I’m also trying something else totally new – taking my time developing things. I have a few other things in development to launch before I head off to university, things for me to play with and work on while I’m there, I hope.

I won’t make the plan for fused.org.uk public, but with any luck it’ll be the first project (bar this one) that makes it out of “alpha” into a fully functional website.

Filed Under Internet Tagged With domains, Fused

Outlook 2010

January 22, 2010 By George Leave a Comment

I installed the beta of office 2010 a week or so ago, I only installed outlook because I use 07 for everything else but today I think I’m giving up on it.

Outlook 2010 is great, its a lovely piece of software and by all means it has a lot of cool features, but its connectivity with my blackberry sucks, which rendered half of it completely useless to me.

And I can’t seem to find a way to send feedback without the send a smile thing, which to me is essentially ‘let’s take a snapshot of your computer, processes, and anything else we like to peruse’ so I’m not a fan of that.

So, when I get home I think I will probably uninstall 2010, stick with my 2007 which doesn’t have outlook.

I do like the interface though. It looks very pretty and everything I need is fairly easy to access, although the send receive button could maybe be somewhere on the home tab in the ribbon thing – its more nitpicking than anything.

But as it is it annoys me, I am thinking of leaving it in favour of online email (apps by Google) and the email on my blackberry, the combination of the two will do me nicely :).

[written from my blackberry, on opera mini, which is brilliant]

Filed Under Technology Tagged With beta, Microsoft, outlook
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