Looking at the GMail’s javascript source gives a pretty good hint that Google is developing a service that will let you use GMail as a server rather than just a client, similar to what Yahoo provides. This article walks us through what he has found and imagines how a service like this would work.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
Digg is a site I’ve known about for a while but only started using within the last week or two. It was founded by Kevin Rose, who was on TechTV for a while.
I can’t help but think of him first as a TechTV personality, who I generally always thought of as idiots who managed to get on TV. Sure, some of them come from non-technical backgrounds, but they really pulled a lot of young, smart talent. Then they put them on shows like Judgement Day.
I guess I had heard about Digg before but never really had any interest in it. Then Morash told me to listen to a podcast, This Week in Tech, which I had also heard of and also had little interest for. It turned out to be very good (I’ve liked John C. Dvorak since he was on c|net Central), and then Kevin Rose was in an episode, and I really enjoyed his comments. He co-hosts a podcast called Diggnation, in which he discusses the week’s most popular stories from digg.com.
I like Diggnation better than TWiT. It’s shorter, which is better for the short attention span, but it’s also younger, which is nice. I like Dvorak and most of the guests on TWiT, but Leo LaPorte still gets on my nerves from time to time.
So check out Digg and Diggnation.
[UPDATE] Oh yes — Digg also has a feature/tool that allows you to post a story on Digg to your blog. It supports several blog tools/sites including WordPress. I haven’t tried it out yet because I’m a little scared. But look out for that.
So Mozilla released Firefox 1.5.0.1. Supposedly it fixes memory leaks.
Which memory leaks does it fix?
I learned a few weeks ago — while listening to Security Now!, I believe — that you can get Gmail over a secure connection simply by replacing “http” in your browser’s location bar with “https.” I did it, it works, I changed my bookmarks.
As I write this post, Gmail’s new Quick Contacts UI enhancement does not show up over the secure connection. The Quick Contacts features a Chat button for all users, and it’s grayed out for everybody on my list (but that might just be because no one else has hooked it up on their systems).
Because the chat buttons were all grayed out, I thought that maybe you need Google Talk installed to use Gmail Chat. I installed it, but Gmail Chat didn’t light up or anything.
I’m curious about a few things:
- Is Google Talk required to use Gmail Chat?
- Is the new Quick Contacts feature permanently absent over the secure connection? Or will it be there, too, within a few hours/days?
- Why roll out the Quick Contacts if there’s still backend stuff pending?
