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Listing ID: 1260
Title: Google Operating System
Description: A blog about a company that started as a search engine and will become an online operating system, that stores and processes our documents, memories and desires.
Category: Internet
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listed on: July 10, 2008 07:45:13 AM
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| Refresh POP3 Accounts in Gmail - 2010-03-09 02:05:00 |
| If you useGmail's POP3 fetchingfeature to read messages from other email accounts, you've noticed that Gmail checks for new messages less frequently than desktop mail clients. Usually, Gmail tries to find new messages every hour, but some accounts are updated more frequently, especially if you get many messages. "Once you've set up Mail Fetcher, Google will check your other accounts on a regular basis, and new mail will appear automatically in Gmail. Gmail checks individual accounts for new messages at different rates, depending on previous mail fetch attempts. At this time you can't customize the frequency of automatic mail fetches,"explains Google. While the most obvious improvement would be to manually set the frequency, Google decided that's inefficient, but added a Gmail Labs feature that lets you manually refresh your accounts. Go toGmail Labs, enable "Refresh POP accounts" and click "Save Changes". When you want to check for new messages, click on the "Refresh" link at the top of the page. You should see a message informing you that Gmail is "fetching mail".  Until now, you had to go to the Settings page, select the Accounts tab and click on "Check mail now" next to each POP3 account. Gmail solved this problem by adding a new feature to the existing "Refresh" link. "The refresh link at the top of your inbox will not only update your inbox with your new Gmail messages, it will also fetch messages from any other accounts which you have set up,"mentions Emmanuel Pellereau. Yahoo Mail has a better mail checking interface: you can refresh individual POP3 accounts with just two clicks and there's a keyboard shortcut for refreshing all accounts. Unfortunately, Yahoo Mail checks your POP mail accounts for new messagesonly when you request it.   |
| The Beast File: Google - 2010-03-07 02:14:00 |
| Hungry Beast, a news program that airs on ABC1 Australia, hada segment about Googlea few days ago. The TV show defines Google as an advertising giant whose main goal is to track users and deliver targeted ads. Many of the numbers that are supposed to show Google's power are outdated. For example, the number of Google serverswas estimated to 450,000in 2006.comScore estimatedthat Google attracted more than 2 billion searches a day in July 2009. Hungry Beast claims that Google "wants to own your phone, your email, your computer and your entire digital life". Using the verb "own" is inappropriate, since Google simply hosts your email and offers software for your phone and your computer. Projects likeData Liberationshow that Google's doesn't want to trap your data. Another claim is that "Google wants to own the cables that deliver the Internet and the electricity to power them", whenGoogle's goalis to "help make Internet access better and faster for everyone" by showing that it's possible to "deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access". Like Gmail, which offered for the first time 1 GB of storage for free, orGoogle's bidin the FCC spectrum auction, which helped consumers because Google convinced FCC to add some new rules: the winner of the auction has to "give its customers the right to download any application they want on their mobile device, and the right to use any device they want on the network". The video concludes that Google's ultimate goal is to gather data about everyone in the world and to show great targeted ads. Actually,Google's missionis to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". Google's disrupting business model pushes the boundaries of technology by democratizing knowledge. Ads are only the fuel that helps Google accomplish its mission. "We aspire to make Google an institution that makes the world a better place. (...) With our products, Google connects people and information all around the world for free. (...) By releasing services, such as Gmail, for free, we hope to help bridge the digital divide. AdWords connects users and advertisers efficiently, helping both. AdSense helps fund a huge variety of online web sites and enables authors who could not otherwise publish." (Google's IPO Letter, 2004) { viaHarvey Sanchez}  |
| Exploring Google Suggest - 2010-03-07 01:53:00 |
What Do You Suggest?is a site that lets you visually explore how Google Suggest autocompletes a query. "What Do You Suggest takes a seed from you, then guides you on a journey through language and the collective lives of Google users."  Simon Elvery, who created the site, founda lot of interesting patterns: There are some recurring themes which have emerged as I've been playing with the site during its creation. Among other things, it seems people do rather a lot of searching on the topics ofmusic,religionandrelationships. { viaInformation Aesthetics}  |